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Earthquake Causes 2.5-Meter Ground Slip in First-Ever Footage
A security camera captured something never seen before on film: the surface of the Earth lunging sideways during a magnitude 7.7 earthquake.
It’s the first direct video of a fault line in motion, offering a rare, horrifyingly calm glimpse at the forces that shape continents and rearrange cities. That movement matched scratch-like marks seen in rock formations called slickenlines, which geologists have used as fossilized proof of ancient fault behavior. With enough visual evidence, we could start decoding how ruptures begin, how they travel, and what kinds of signals happen before the ground suddenly slips beneath our feet and devastates cities.
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