Satellite images show effects of deadly 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar which has caused widespread devastation, with ...

These scales account for the distance between the earthquake and the recording seismometer so that the calculated magnitude should be about the same no matter where it is measured. Another scale is ...

The earthquake was also very large - measuring 7.7 on the moment scale. It produced more energy than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, according to the US Geological Survey. The size of the ...

Small earthquakes, such as the 1.8-magnitude quake recorded in Somerset County, generally present little to no threat to infrastructure and the population. They serve predominantly as reminders of the ...

The Oct. 7 earthquake was the strongest felt in Tokyo in a decade, but it will pale in comparison to the one that has long been predicted to devastate the capital. Seismologists and other experts ...

But the last one of this size in the Sagaing region was in 1946. That predates the development of modern earthquake building codes. Reconstruction in Mandalay and beyond after that event will have ...

The White House and former USAID staff have differing views on the nature of the U.S. response to the earthquake that struck Myanmar and neighboring countries.