This earthquake was the result of a strike-slip fault movement along the Sagaing Fault line, which runs north to south within ...

Yann Klinger is a seismologist at the Institut de Physique du Globe in Paris. He describes the geophysical activity in the ...

The magnitude 7.7 earthquake was powerful, shallow and in a heavily populated region with vulnerable buildings.

ISRO released satellite images of the damage from Myanmar's 7.7-magnitude earthquake. The images include the collapse Ava ...

Myanmar’s location between two tectonic plates – the India and Eurasia plates – places it at particular risk of quakes.

The deadly earthquake that struck near Mandalay on Friday was caused by “strike-slip faulting ... This fault, where the Indian and Sunda plates meet, is similar in scale and movement to ...

The famed San Andreas Fault in California is nearly identical to the one that caused last week’s destructive tremor in Myanmar, and is also overdue for an earthquake.

A 7.7-magnitude earthquake in Myanmar has killed over 1,000 people, with deadly aftershocks causing further devastation and ...

The report warns that a massive earthquake, "Great Himalayan Earthquake" (magnitude above 8), could strike due to tectonic activity in Northeast India, where the Indian plate is subducting beneath the ...