More than 20 earthquakes have hit central and southeast Asia in the last 24 hours, with one of the most powerful in 75 years ...

Myanmar is one of the most prone areas to earthquakes in the world as it features among the high-risk regions on the Global ...

This country is a meeting point for several tectonic plates including the Indian-Australian, Eurasian and Pacific.

A major 7.7 magnitude earthquake has struck Myanmar, causing damage and casualties across the country and in neighbouring ...

Locals and tourists in Bangkok described violent ground shaking during the earthquake — strong enough ... particularly in Myanmar, one of the world's poorest countries. It is embroiled in ...

The quake shook a swath of Southeast Asia. Myanmar’s military government said 144 people were killed in just three cities.

As earthquakes ... today. An area in the Pacific Northwest lies on a 'subduction' zone where a tectonic plate slides underneath the North American plate. Subduction zones produce the world's ...

As our map shows ... This month’s earthquake is the strongest for several years. In 2016 a 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck near the city of Bagan, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

“Myanmar is one of the most seismically active countries in the world, so this quake is not a surprise. It looks to have occurred on the major Sagaing Fault, which marks the boundary between two ...

Severe shortages of medical supplies – including trauma kits, blood bags, anesthetics and assistive devices in a country isolated from the rest of the world by the military junta – have also ...