Scientists explain why he was very destroyed

Scientists explained the cause of violence The earthquake that shook Myanmar It has been very devastating and perhaps the most powerful registration in the country for decades.

You can expect a large number of victims and great damage, and the disaster area is likely to spread. “

But Usgs analysis is estimated that there is a possibility of 35 % Victims It is between 10,000 and 100,000 people.

The American Agency also states that the financial cost of this disaster can be tens of billions of dollars, so that it exceeds the country’s gross domestic product.

Disagreement

“Perhaps the greatest earthquake in Myanmar” in the past 75 years.

To explain this earthquake, Rebecca Bell, an expert in Tkkonia at the Imperial College in London, talks about a side overlap movement Thieves failure.

In that region, the Indian tectonic plate joins the West, to the Sunday painting, which is a large part of Southeast Asia – a similar mistake in size and movement with San Andres in California.

The expert said: “The thieves failed very long, 1200 km, and very straight.”

He explained that the straight nature causes earthquakes to appear in very large areas, and the higher the space of the failure that slides, the more important the earthquake.

Earthquakes in these cases can be “particularly devastating”, Bell warns.

When the earthquake is placed in shallow, its seismic energy dissipates when it reaches the populated areas.

This causes “many tremors on the surface”, added.

Bad construction

According to Ian Watsenson, of the Department of Land Sciences in Royal Holwai, at the University of London, the “construction of high buildings with reinforced concrete” has changed the situation in recent decades.

In Burma, he decreased in disputes for years, the level of applying anti -building standards is very low.

When previous earthquakes occurred 7 or more in the epic error, the Burma was not developed relatively, with many low wooden structure buildings and the effects of religious bricks, “said Watkinson.

Babiti, from the London Geological Institute (BGS), estimated that at least 2.8 million Purman was in the most affected areas.

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