At the Seismological Society of America's Annual Meeting, researchers posed a seemingly simple question: how wide are faults?

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Myanmar was struck by a massive 7.7-magnitude earthquake, followed by another one of 6.4 on the Richter Scale today, which claimed several lives and toppled buildings, ruptured roads and collapsed ...

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Historic earthquakes have caused billions of dollars ... Many of the more vulnerable counties were located along major fault lines, such as King County in Washington, home to Seattle and which ...

Myanmar, situated on one of the world’s most active seismic belts, has been severely impacted by a 7.7 magnitude earthquake and a 6.4 aftershock. The country's tectonic setting, combined with ...

The toll from Myanmar's earthquake ... out from the whole line of the fault,” he added. Myanmar lies on the boundary between two tectonic plates and is one of the world’s most seismically ...

That has cut the country off from the world digitally ... Press The earthquake that devastated central Myanmar on Friday was the result of slippage along a fault line between the Indian and ...