11 comments

  • duxup 3 minutes ago
  • blinding-streak 3 hours ago
    How does property/real estate ownership work in this case? Seeing the land shift so clearly by several feet makes me wonder.

    What was on your property is now on my property!

    • widforss 2 hours ago
      By the discussions I've had with surveyors in my country (Sweden), any coordinate descriptions of properties are deferred to the physical markers in the ground (cairns for older property, metal stakes for newer ones). This would only be an issue in properties that have never been surveyed (and marked) at all.

      Straight borders might become crooked if they cross the crack though.

      • xattt 1 hour ago
        It sure would suck to lose half your property to the earth suddenly saying screw you.
        • MichaelZuo 1 hour ago
          You could lose all your property, without compensation too, if your unlucky enough to have a big enough meteorite crash into it.
          • whycome 1 hour ago
            Or be native
            • mc32 1 hour ago
              Or lose a war, or bet your property or not pay taxes or eminent domain… but I guess nomads never had a immovable property claim.
  • cibyr 9 hours ago
    So many autoplaying videos on the page, and none of them are the video that the article is about.
    • DavidSJ 9 hours ago
      This is the original video, for those looking: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=77ubC4bcgRM
      • praptak 8 hours ago
        PSA: it's easy to miss on the first watch because the big action happens in the background behind the gate.
        • wizardforhire 8 hours ago
          Thanks, first watch all I saw was the driveway crack appear. Second pass could be mistaken for a parallax effect as the entire background shifts forward!
          • nobrains 6 hours ago
            So, I recommend seeing it in 3 passes. 1st pass, see the right 1/3rd area of the video. It shows the 2 sides moving. Then see the middle 1/3rd area of the video. It shows both the movement and the rupture in the ground. Then see the left 1/3rd area of the video. It shows the rupture on the ground clearly.
      • frauhaus 5 hours ago
    • fuenaksofu 19 minutes ago
      Interesting. I see no other video. I use brave so maybe it blocked all the ads and noise.
    • falseprofit 1 hour ago
      It’s the first YouTube embed in the article.
  • dzdt 1 hour ago
    • jxntb73 1 hour ago
      That's no FAULT of his own.
  • gnabgib 10 hours ago
    Discussion (81 points, 3 days ago, 13 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44655128
  • v3ss0n 7 hours ago
    4.x l to 5.x earthquakes are still happening a few times a week and the area couldn't recover from disaster. last week, one 4 stories building next to my friend house collapsed,near Mandalay.

    Does that mean Myanmar is now an active zone?

  • ranger_danger 10 hours ago
    Isn't this news several months old?
    • schobi 7 hours ago
      A previous discussion of the M7.7 quake in Burma/Myanmar from March 28, 2025 was provided by Sean Wilsey. He explained the earthquake and context and discussed the CCTV footage around 6:30 https://youtu.be/CfKFK4-HNmk
    • ofalkaed 6 hours ago
      Quadrennial myopia.
    • andrewflnr 10 hours ago
      It seems like the analysis is the new part.
  • netbioserror 10 hours ago
    Terrifying. I program automated vibration analysis for blasting, and a very powerful explosive blast will feature particle velocities (the direct corollary for power) in the single-digit in/s range (~0.02-0.13 m/s) . This peak particle velocity is 20-150x higher than the peaks we see from the most powerful blasts we measure, if they're at all qualitatively comparable.

    And of course, the earthquake energy source is many magnitudes larger and much, much further away, deep in the crust, with the wavefront already having passed through miles of solid rock. We measure blasts from at most a few hundred meters away.

    • card_zero 10 hours ago
      in/s? Inches per second, or something else? One inch per second is the speed of an excited snail.
      • Aachen 2 hours ago
        Must be inches per second because 1–10 of those is 0.025–0.25 m/s so that matches the parentheses
      • csours 9 hours ago
        in soil, not air.
  • moomoo11 9 hours ago
    Silly question but how does this affect mapping software? Or is the movement insignificant that it doesn’t matter
  • kristopolous 10 hours ago
    I know nothing so help me here. Why is this so rare? Aren't earthquakes, cameras, and monitoring of them pretty common?
    • irjustin 10 hours ago
      Videos of earthquakes are common enough.

      It's the video of the fault line itself fracturing that's so interesting.

      We know where the fault lines are, so we generally avoid building anything major near them because... well earthquakes. Hence no other videos of actual fault line fractures (vs general street ones).

  • varispeed 4 hours ago
    It is remarkable how widespread of CCTV has helped in that field. Imagine being a scientist and never actually experience or see the earthquake you are into researching. That be like going to place where they are common and then sit a year or so and anticipating. Is it coming? Should be any time soon? Then when it happens you are in the toilet and have seen nothing apart from painting falling off the wall.