The 11th January 2018, Mw 6.0 Bago-Yoma, Myanmar earthquake: A shallow thrust event within the deforming Bago-Yoma Range

Abstract

Myanmar is situated within a region of active tectonic blocks with boundaries defined by a variety of tectonic settings (Figure 1a). The Burma sliver plate is characterized by the highly oblique convergence of the Indian plate (∼18 mm/yr) at its western boundary while the ∼N-S striking right-lateral Sagaing Fault (∼20 mm/ yr) defines its eastern boundary bordering the Shan Plateau on the Sunda plate (Mallick et al., 2019;Socquet