Burma Plate

Burma Plate

Geology

Published in Ronald C. Chaney, Marine Geology and Geotechnology of the South China Sea and Taiwan Strait, 2020

The Sunda Plate is a minor lithospheric tectonic plate located in the eastern hemisphere along the equator (Figure 2.2). This plate is bounded in the east by the Philippine Plate and the Philippine mobile belt, Molucca Sea Collision zone, Molucca Sea Plate, Banda Sea Plate and Timor Plate; to the south by the Australian Plate to the west; and to the north by the Burma Plate, Eurasian Plate and the Yangtze Plate.

Development of Damage Patterns and Fragility Curves in Brick-nogging Buildings from the Thabeikkyin Earthquake, Myanmar, 2012

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Published in Journal of Earthquake Engineering, 2018

Zin Zin Nwe, Nan Pawt Sai Awar, Aye Mya Cho, Kyaw Moe Aung, Maki Koyama, Junji Kiyono

Earthquakes in Myanmar have resulted from two main causes namely: 1) continued subduction of the northward-moving Indian plate beneath the Burma plate at an average rate of 3.5 cm/year, and 2) northward movement of the Burma plate from a spreading center in the Andaman Sea at an average rate of 2.5–3.0 cm/year [UN-HABITAT, 2010].

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Development of Damage Patterns and Fragility Curves in Brick-nogging Buildings from the Thabeikkyin Earthquake, Myanmar, 2012