In an article published in Science Advances, a collaborative team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) ...

Southern California is seismically active due to its location on tectonic plate boundaries, having experienced major quakes like the 1994 Northridge event. A strong but shallow earthquake with a ...

A team presents new details of an oceanic transform fault at the Gofar fault in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The work reveals unexpected brine deposits beneath the seafloor near the fault, which could ...

Fault lines are fractures or breaks in the Earth's crust where tectonic plates move past each other, often resulting in earthquakes ... are common at convergent plate boundaries, where tectonic ...

A powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.7 centred in the Sagaing region near the Myanmar city of Mandalay caused extensive damage in that country and also shook neighbouring Thailand on Friday.

constructive and conservative plate boundaries and how the plates move at each of these, with earthquakes occurring as a result of plate boundary movement. In 2010 a major earthquake caused ...

and Plate Boundary Fault-3 -- each capable of generating earthquakes between magnitudes 7 and 8.5. Despite these alarming projections, earthquake preparedness in Dhaka remains almost nonexistent ...

A powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.7 centred in the Sagaing region near the Myanmar city of Mandalay caused extensive damage in that country and also shook neighbouring Thailand on Friday.

HOW VULNERABLE IS MYANMAR TO EARTHQUAKES? Myanmar lies on the boundary between two tectonic plates and is one of the world's most seismically active countries, although large and ...

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