SRL Call for Papers

The 2025 Mw 7.7 Myanmar and Mw 7.1 Tingri Earthquakes: Multidisciplinary Insights into Seismogenesis, Hazard and Community Resilience

Seismological Research Letters (SRL) is soliciting papers for a Focus Section on the 2025 Mw 7.7 Myanmar and Mw 7.1 Tingri Earthquakes: Multidisciplinary Insights into Seismogenesis, Hazard, and Community Resilience.

2025 has already witnessed two major earthquakes in the broader Himalayan region: the 7 January Mw 7.1 Tingri earthquake in southern Tibet, and the 28 March Mw 7.7 Myanmar earthquake in Mandalay.

On 28 March 2025, a major Mw 7.7 earthquake struck central Myanmar along the dextral Sagaing Fault, one of the most active tectonic boundaries in Southeast Asia. This event, which produced the longest surface rupture (>400 km) amongst continental earthquakes, caused significant ground shaking, landslides and infrastructure damage across Myanmar and neighboring regions, including the collapse of an under-construction high-rise building in Bangkok. The earthquake’s proximity to the Indo-Burmese plate boundary and its complex rupture dynamics, namely the supershear nature of rupture, offer a unique and valuable opportunity to advance our understanding of plate boundary seismicity, fault interactions and seismic risk in understudied regions.

Ten years after the 2015 Gorkha earthquake in central Nepal, the first major earthquake in decades struck north of the Himalayas in southern Tibet, ~1000 km northwest of Mandalay. The Mw 7.1 event occurred on a normal fault within the NS-trending Xainza-Dinggye graben, causing significant damage to local villages and generating relatively large co-seismic offsets despite its modest magnitude. Whether this event increased tectonic stress on numerous nearby faults—including those in India and Nepal—is a critical question that we aim to address in order to better assess regional seismic hazard. Also, this event provides a glimpse of how the Tibetan plateau deforms in response to the India-Eurasia convergence.

This Seismological Research Letters focus section invites contributions from the global seismological, geological, geophysical and disaster-risk communities to explore the 2025 Myanmar and Tingri earthquakes from multidisciplinary perspectives. We aim to synthesize rapid scientific responses, foster regional and international collaboration and highlight lessons for enhancing earthquake resilience in vulnerable communities.

Scope and Topics
We welcome original research articles, technical briefs, and commentaries addressing (but not limited to) the following themes:

Earthquake Source Characterization
Rupture process, directivity and finite-fault inversions.
Aftershock patterns, stress transfer and implications for seismic hazard.
Interaction between the seismogenic faults and adjacent tectonic structures.
Role of the Indo-Burmese subduction zone in strain partitioning.
Paleoseismology and long-term slip rates of the Sagaing Fault and the south Tibetan grabens.
Geodetic constraints on crustal deformation (InSAR, GNSS).

Ground Motion and Impacts
Strong-motion data analysis and site amplification effects.
Secondary hazards (landslides, liquefaction) and their spatial distribution.
Damage assessment of critical infrastructure (e.g., bridges, heritage sites).

Integrated Approaches to Earthquake Preparedness and Response
Societal and Operational Challenges.
Community vulnerability and socioeconomic impacts in rural/urban areas.
Effectiveness of early warning systems and emergency response.
Cross-border collaboration in disaster risk reduction (Myanmar-India-Bangladesh-Thailand and China-Nepal-India).

Innovative Methodologies
Machine learning applications for rapid source parameter estimation.
Crowdsourced data (e.g., social media, citizen seismometers) for impact assessment.
Remote sensing and AI-driven damage detection and disaster response.

Guest Editors:

Deadline for Submission: 3 November 2025

Articles accepted to this SRL Focus Section on the Myanmar and Tingri Earthquakes will be published online soon after acceptance and collectively in print in the May 2026 issue. Papers will be reviewed as they are received and published online prior to the print issue.

In preparing manuscripts, authors must follow the SRL author guidelines at www.seismosoc.org/publications/srl-authorsinfo/. Papers must be submitted via the SRL online submission system (SRL online submission system (www.editorialmanager.com/srl/) under the category “Focus Section – Myanmar-Tingri Earthquakes.”

Please address questions about scientific issues to the guest editors or SRL Editor-in-Chief Allison Bent at srleditor@seismosoc.org.  Submission-related questions should be addressed to the SRL Editorial Office at srl@seismosoc.org.