The deadly earthquake that struck near Mandalay on Friday was caused by “strike-slip faulting” along the boundary of the India and Eurasia plates.

As many as 100,000 people are feared dead and many more missing following a massive 8.2 magnitude earthquake that razed buildings to the ground across Myanmar and Thailand. High-rise buildings ...

Earthquake parameters measured by global seismological ... The Sagaing Fault is a strike-slip fault, the sliding face between two tectonic blocks that simply slide horizontally along each other ...

“The plate boundary between the India Plate and Eurasia Plate runs approximately north-south, cutting through the middle of the country,” Joanna Faure Walker, a professor and earthquake expert at ...

A preliminary 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck near San Diego, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake's epicenter ...

Credit: SciTechDaily.com A massive 7.7 earthquake and powerful aftershock struck near Mandalay, Burma, shaking buildings and damaging infrastructure as far as Bangkok. Satellite imagery from NASA and ...

Chris Goldfinger and his colleagues at Oregon State University say that there is a 37 per cent chance that a devastating earthquake could strike the endangered region by 2060. Incidentally, scientists ...

Predicting the exact moment an earthquake will strike is impossible, so scientists instead use historical activity to try to understand the patterns of seismic events. Steven Sobieszczyk ...

He told the BBC it was "nothing short of incredible" that the military was dropping bombs on people after a devastating earthquake. An air strike earlier this month hit a village held by anti-coup ...

A powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake hit near Mandalay, Myanmar, causing extensive damage and reaching Bangkok. The quake, originating from the Sagaing Fault, has resulted in significant fatalities ...