Figure 1. Three consequences of India’s 50-million year-long collision and penetration into Asia are the Himalayan Frontal Thrust System, the Sumatra-Java Subduction Zone, and the right-lateral Sagaing transform fault. The roughly 350 kilometer-long Sagaing rupture (in white) produced the magnitude 7.7 earthquake and its aftershocks (brown-orange shocks). The quake struck in an area of high seismic hazard in Temblor’s global model. Credit: Temblor, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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