Earthquakes are among the most formidable natural disasters, striking with little warning and causing widespread devastation.

An earthquake is extremely destructive if it occurs shallow in the Earth's crust and near population centres - Friday's earthquake in Myanmar did both.

Scotland - and The Great Glen - lie on the Great Glen fault. A fault is where two tectonic plates meet. The other half of this one is in Canada! ISLA: Well, fold mountains like these are created ...

By applying thermoluminescence dating to newly formed dolomite minerals in fault structures, the team determined that tectonic activity in the region began approximately 2.7 million years ago.

This earthquake was the result of a strike-slip fault movement along the Sagaing Fault line, which runs north to south within Myanmar.

On March 28, 2025, a devastating 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck central Myanmar, leaving a trail of destruction that has ...

Earthquakes are relatively common in Myanmar, where six strong quakes of 7.0 magnitude or more struck between 1930 and 1956 ...