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Jesse Kearse, Postdoctoral Researcher, Geophysics, Kyoto University

The first video of Earth’s surface lurching sideways in an earthquake offers new insights into this force of nature

Sai Aung MAIN/AFP via Getty Images

During the devastating magnitude 7.7 Myanmar earthquake on March 28 this year, a CCTV camera captured the moment the plate boundary moved, providing the first direct visual evidence of plate tectonics in action.

Tectonic plate boundaries are where chunks of Earth’s crust slide past each other – not smoothly, but in sudden, violent ruptures.

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