Vietnamese tremors are not related to Japanese earthquakes

The quake in Myanmar and tremor in Vietnam on March 24, many people worried about the relationship between the earthquake and the double disaster in Japan that took place earlier. However, in fact, the quake in Myanmar has nothing to do with earthquakes in Japan.

The earthquake occurred on March 24 at the border between Laos, Thailand and Myanmar, which was 20,705 ° N, 99,949 ° E, 69 km north of Chiang Mai, Thailand. Drainage at a depth of 10 km.

Myanmar earthquake on March 24 with a sliding mechanism occurs in the affected area
strong deformation due to the clash of the Indo-Australian Plate on the Eurasian Plate.

The origin of this earthquake is related to the clash between the Indo-Australian tectonic plate and the Eurasian plate. Myanmar is located in the slip boundary of these two segments. If you look at the history of earthquakes that happened in Myanmar, the earthquake with the magnitude of 6.8 on the Richter scale is just a small earthquake.

Over the past 100 years, this region has 13 or more earthquakes of 7.0 or more. This area had an earthquake of 8.0 Richter scale in 1912. This earthquake only happened after an earthquake of 7.5 Richter scale.

Two 7.3-magnitude earthquakes occurred in Myanmar in 1930. The following year there were two consecutive earthquakes of 7.6 and 7.0 on the Richter scale. Thus, the movement of the Indo-Australian plate so quickly has caused strong distortion, squeezing this area by the stress-slip field.

The reason for the recent earthquake caused Vietnam to feel it because it is close to our country and agricultural crisis (10 km).

In fact, using measurements from more than 1000 GPS measurement stations in Japan and determining seismic shifting, scientists have simulated and showed that the Japanese battle (March 11) could trigger the activity engulfed Japan within a few hundred kilometers of the main earthquake location, activating the active fault systems in Japan as well as volcanoes in this area.

The distance from the earthquake in Japan to the Myanmar earthquake is too far, the mechanism of deformation and the origin is very different, so it cannot be assumed that the earthquake in Japan triggered the earthquake in Myanmar.

We emphasize that with the current strong tectonic deformation characteristics in the Myanmar area, the magnitude 6.8 earthquake is just a slight spur.This area will have much larger earthquakes.

Earthquakes of 6.5 or higher in Myanmar since the beginning of the 20th century up to now.