2011 Burma earthquake
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(56 km south-east of Kengtung )
The earthquake in Myanmar in 2011 was a strong earthquake in Shan State in eastern Myanmar on 24 March 2011. The epicenter was located as specified by the United States Geological Survey, 772 km north of Bangkok, Thailand, 589 km northeast of Yangon, Myanmar and 168 km south- southwest of Yunjinghong in Yunnan, people's Republic of China, near the tri-border region between Myanmar, Thailand and Laos. The hypocenter of the earthquake with magnitude 6.8 Mw moment was, according to these data in ten miles deep.
Tectonic overview
The deformations and earthquakes today's time in Myanmar and neighboring areas in Southeast Asia caused by the northward movement of the Indian plate. This collides with the Eurasian plate, said Myanmar, located east of the plate boundary between the Indian plate and Sundaplatte in the eastern part of the collision zone. At the latitude of the earthquake of 24 March, the Indian plate moves with respect to the Sundaplatte with an average speed of about 45 mm / yr north- northeastward. The majority of the movements between two plates, focusing on the Sagaing Fault, a line extending in a north-south direction fault with right-sided slip fault, where the two plates, based on GPS data at a speed of about 18 mm a year together slip past. The rejection is almost four hundred kilometers west of the epicenter of the earthquake of March 24. At this rejection of numerous major earthquakes have occurred in the past, including in February 1991, an event with a magnitude of 6.9, by its effects, two people were killed.
Other deformations caused by the collision of Indian plate and Sundaplatte extend east through Myanmar into neighboring Thailand and northern Laos. In the northeast Myanmar this meeting of the plates causes deformations inside the Shan Plateau and in the Shan -Thai block. These are intersected by a number of trending northeast left- dislocation. The earthquake of 24 March occurred in a region of the Shan -Thai block. The nearest large and destructive earthquake was an earthquake event with magnitude 6.8 in July 1995 with its epicenter about 170 km to the north-northeast, 11 people lost their lives due to its effects.
The fault plane solution for the event of 24 March, which points to a left-side slippage of a trending north-east node level is similar to the fault plane solutions of other historical earthquake events in Nordösten Myanmar. The events of the recent past in the area include the earthquake in Yunnan in 2011 and the earthquake in Laos in 2007.
Victim
First, it was reported that ten people were killed by landslides that caused the quake, in Tachileik and the north of it Tarpin. In the course of the next day further messages were received. Thus, were killed in Myanmar at least 74 people, one person died in the Thai Mae Sai by the effects of the earthquake, at least 111 people were injured. Located in Tarlay, between Tachileik and Mong Hpyak, 40 people were killed and 130 houses collapsed. In the region of the floor sagged partially by 1.5 meters.
The Bangkok Post reported, citing a reporter for the Shan Herald News Agency of a higher number of casualties. Thus, more than 150 people have died due to the effects of the earthquake. The military government of Myanmar tends to limit the flow of information; it has, for example, the scale of the disaster played down in cyclone Nargis long.
Effects
At times, were high-rise buildings in Chiang Rai in Thailand, evacuated in Vietnam in Menghai county in Yunnan Province and Nanning in Guangxi autonomous region in the People's Republic of China as well as in Hanoi, were felt the tremors in Bangkok. Wat Chedi Luang was damaged by the quake. Through the vibrations 390 houses, 14 monasteries and nine government buildings were destroyed in Myanmar. In Mong Lin collapsed at least 128 houses. In northern Thailand, there was structural damage to several hospitals.
According to calculations by the United States Geological Survey in terms of the calculated magnitude of the population affected and the damage is probably just under 100 million U.S. dollars.
Relief
The Thai government has provided three million baht available for those affected by the earthquake in Myanmar.
Documents
- Earthquakes in Asia
- Natural Disaster 2011
- History of Myanmar
- Shan State