When the ground shakes violently, entire cities can crumble within minutes. Homes, hospitals, roads, and lives can vanish ...

A magnitude 7.7 earthquake in Myanmar caused widespread shaking and likely considerable damage because of a lack of buildings ...

Earthquakes are known for being destructive forces of nature, but not all of them actually stem from purely natural causes.

Earthquakes and extreme weather patterns are two of the most powerful natural phenomena that can impact our planet. While ...

Early Friday, a major 7.7 magnitude earthquake that originated near Mandalay, Myanmar, shook the Earth as far as Bangkok, ...

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

Mexico City is no stranger to seismic events, feeling the effects of both shallow crustal earthquakes and deeper subduction earthquakes. "The large ground accelerations shown by the recent small ...

Image: A building is damaged after the earthquake hit in Naypyitaw ... and destructive if it occurs shallow in the Earth's crust and close to population centres. Friday's quake did both.

An earthquake happens when Earth’s tectonic plates move against each other, creating friction. This sudden movement along a fault line makes the ground shake violently and can sometimes lead to ...

In the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Miguel Jaimes and Gerardo Suárez at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México describe potential damage forecasts from ground shaking scenarios ...

Experts say the earthquake, which occurred along the Sagaing ... are probable. The Earth's crust is broken up into several pieces called tectonic plates, which fit together like a jigsaw puzzle.