Uh, this is of one of the many high rises that are really prepositioned in a way to absorb uh earthquake activity just like this.

Notice the pool at the top of this high rise building and look at the water sloshing back and forth and spilling over the edges.

Sometimes in these newly constructed buildings, they actually utilize pools at the tops of these high rises to dampen earthquake activity.

Uh it is acting as it's supposed to in this particular situation and I just find this uh type of video extraordinary.

To show you the engineering feats uh that are in play here for these earthquake prone areas.

But of course, we've seen the not so fortunate buildings that have collapsed.

The pancaking effect from the violent shaking.

That has occurred uh from this magnitude 7.7.

So we're going to recap for people who are just now tuning in.

Uh following this major breaking news of a significant earthquake.

That struck the central portions of uh Myanmar, 7.7.

Uh this happened roughly around 12:50 in the afternoon local time on March 28th, but what's interesting to note is the depth of this earthquake.

And I'm going to explain why.

That is a shallow natured earthquake.

And that is significant, don't need to be an expert to really understand this.

Uh the fact that it is so shallow, it is near the surface, the shaking is going to ripple out in all directions.

So it will be more felt towards the surface versus if this was a deeper uh focal point of an earthquake.

That means that the ground would absorb the shaking, unfortunately that results in significant damage in the locations where people live.

So there's three different types of fault lines uh that traverse the entire planet.

There's the normal fault lines uh that separate uh during an earthquake, a reverse uh uh type of fault line.

But what took place here in Myanmar is known as a strike slip, uh so the Sagaing fault uh is runs parallel right through Myanmar.

If you look at a map on the USGS website, you can see it.

Uh this actually moves about 18 millimeters per year.

So in a course of a decade, it moves about 10 or rather 7 inches.

So let's say you were to build a fence across this very fault line here in Myanmar, for instance, in 10 years time, you would have a 7 inch separation.

Just by the pure nature of its movement over time, remember 18 millimeters per year.

Sounds like a little, but that's quite significant because there's a lot of pent up energy that is associated with that strike slip motion that I showed you on the graphics a moment ago.

So that explodes.

Or erupts into a significant earthquake.

At some point in time.

And it just happened to be.

About six hours ago and look at the number of people that felt the shaking.

Just incredible, nearly 90 million people felt at least light to weak shaking.

But when we're talking about the real serious business stuff, the severe to violent shaking.

Several million people in and around the epicenter here felt the shaking and you bet.

There will certainly continue to be aftershocks going forward.

And we need to brace ourselves for a high fatality event.

Especially when we compare this to previous similar events and I'm thinking about 2023 in Turkey.