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Title: The January 11, 2018, Mw 6.0 Bago-Yoma, Myanmar earthquake : a shallow thrust event within the deforming Bago-Yoma range
Authors: Fadil, Wardah
Lindsey, Eric Ostrom
Wang, Yu
Maung, Phyo Maung
Luo, Heng
Swe, Tint Lwin
Tun, Pa Pa
Wei, Shengji
Keywords: Science::Geology::Volcanoes and earthquakes
Issue Date: 2021
Source: Fadil, W., Lindsey, E. O., Wang, Y., Maung, P. M., Luo, H., Swe, T. L., Tun, P. P. & Wei, S. (2021). The January 11, 2018, Mw 6.0 Bago-Yoma, Myanmar earthquake : a shallow thrust event within the deforming Bago-Yoma range. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 126(7), e2020JB021313-. https://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2020JB021313
Journal: Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 
Abstract: On January 11, 2018 (18:26 UTC), a Mw 6.0 earthquake occurred approximately 30 km west of the Sagaing Fault in the Bago-Yoma Range (BYR). Using a local broadband seismic network and regional seismic stations, we refine the locations and moment tensors of the earthquake sequence. We relocate 98 earthquake epicenters and determine the focal mechanism and centroid depth of the mainshock and 20 aftershocks with Mw > 4. The relocated epicenters cluster in a NW-SE direction that is consistent with the strike of the mainshock fault plane solution and the slip distribution derived from ALOS-2 interferometric synthetic aperture radar observations. Most of the aftershocks have a pure thrust focal mechanism similar to the mainshock, except for four strike-slip aftershocks. The refined locations and moment tensors of the thrust events clearly delineate a fault dipping ∼40° to the southwest at a depth range of 3–7 km, indicating that the earthquake sequence ruptured a previously unmapped, active fault. We interpret the earthquake sequence to be associated with pre-existing faults within the BYR anticlinorium. This earthquake sequence and historical seismicity indicate that the upper crust of the BYR is highly stressed, resulting in ongoing distributed deformation between the oblique Rakhine megathrust and the dextral Sagaing Fault. The seismic hazard posed by these active faults has been increasing with the development of infrastructure such as dams within the BYR. Our study highlights the need for high-resolution earthquake source parameter and strong ground motion attenuation studies for further understanding of the neotectonics of Myanmar and its related seismic hazard.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/152801
ISSN: 2169-9313
DOI: 10.1029/2020JB021313
DOI (Related Dataset): 10.21979/N9/BQ11DP
10.21979/N9/QHJXU7
Schools: Asian School of the Environment 
Research Centres: Earth Observatory of Singapore 
Rights: © 2021. The Authors.This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Fulltext Permission: open
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