It’s even rarer to actually capture one of those moments on camera, but according to seismologists at Japan’s Kyoto University, the footage highlights the first-known video of a strike-slip fault. Their analysis, published in The Seismic Record, has led to new findings based on real-time visual evidence of tectonic motion. Completely by accident, the camera recorded a direct look of a strike-slip fault, something previously analyzed by remote seismic instruments. To researchers at Kyoto University, the clip wasn’t just a jaw-dropping scene—it was an opportunity to study a strike-slip fault using visual data. Additional examinations also proved that the slip path was slightly curved, confirming previous observations recorded elsewhere in the world.