A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Kunlun_earthquake" id="mwARk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="2001 Kunlun earthquake">magnitude 7.8 earthquake</a> strikes a remote part of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_plateau" id="mwARo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Tibetan plateau">Tibetan plateau</a>. It has the longest known <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_rupture" id="mwARs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Surface rupture">surface rupture</a> recorded on land (~400<span id="mwARw" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>km) and is the best documented example of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supershear_earthquake" id="mwAR0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Supershear earthquake">supershear earthquake</a>.<sup about="#mwt85" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{"name":"Bouchon"},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-Bouchon-15"}}' id="cite_ref-Bouchon_15-0" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./November_14#cite_note-Bouchon-15" id="mwAR4" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 15;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAR8">[15]</span></a></sup>