Any videos of rock ground rupture of deep major faults?

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Have any videos been captured of earthquake ground rupture in rock, along the main fault?
With recent abundance of security and cellphone cameras a lot of interesting and rare phenomena have been filmed.
There are many videos of local landslides and rockfalls.
Earthquakes commonly display shaking of buildings. Ground ruptures often happen in soft ground, in multiple places. Earthquake shaking may trigger rockfalls, along local faults unrelated to the main earthquake faults. Even when a ground rupture can be identified as the main earthquake fault, it is often in soft soil.
Have there been any occasions where a section of a deep fault reaching surface in hard rock has been filmed in coseismic motion?
 
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snorkack said:
Have there been any occasions where a section of a deep fault reaching surface in hard rock has been filmed in coseismic motion?
The release of energy by the physical rupture of hard rock nearby, will be sufficient to destroy the camera mountings. The camera will shake so much due to the broadband step displacement, that there will be no useful pictures.

Amateur photographers lack the discipline and presence of mind to hold a camera steady during an unexpected event, they panic, point the camera at the ground and run, just when they need to stand their ground to maintain the record.

Maybe, if there was a surveillance drone flying nearby, the camera would be sufficiently isolated, to capture the step change in ground position, along with the following oscillatory movements.
 
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