Powerful earthquakes rocked Myanmar, shaking Bangkok and toppling a high-rise. With tsunami fears looming, how do quakes ...

There are a number of hazards caused by plate tectonics including earthquakes ... moves out as a series of giant ripples. This is a tsunami. Just a metre high, but a hundred miles from front ...

The March 11 earthquake and tsunami left more than 28,000 dead ... More than 28-thousand people are confirmed dead or missing. When two tectonic plates push together under the sea, the resulting ...

The study, published on Wednesday, suggests that a collision between the Nazca and South American tectonic plates produced the quake and 15-20-metre (49-66-feet) high tsunami waves. “At various ...

Chile is located in the so-called “Ring of Fire” — where tectonic plates clash under the surface ... reports of casualties or damage. No tsunami warning was issued in the earthquake-prone ...