Shifting plates At some point the underlying rock gives way and years and years of potential movement all occurs in a couple of seconds.

Shifting plates - The ground this side of the fence is supported on one tectonic plate, and the ground on the far side of the fence is supported on a different plate. The plates are slowly moving past one another.

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"Rebecca Bell, a tectonics expert at Imperial College London (ICL), suggested it was a side-to-side "strike-slip" of the #SagaingFault.

This is where the Indian #tectonicplate, to the west, meets the Sunda plate that forms much of #SoutheastAsia — a fault similar in scale and movement to the […]