A massive 7.7 earthquake originating in Myanmar has collapsed buildings over 600 miles away in Bangkok, Thailand ...

In regions of convergence, one plate can sink under another in a subduction zone, or two colliding plates can form a mountain belt. At divergent boundaries, plates move away from each other and ...

A powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.7 centred in the Sagaing region near the Myanmar city of Mandalay caused extensive ...

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.

These convergent boundaries also occur where a plate of ocean dives, in a process called subduction, under a landmass. As the overlying plate lifts up, it also forms mountain ranges. In addition ...

Figure 1: Slip along the plate boundary fault of a subduction zone. Although a recent analysis of NVT in Cascadia supports its origin at the plate boundary interface, (K. Creager, Univ.

A 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar's Sagaing region, causing widespread damage and raising questions about the country's preparedness. Myanmar, located on a tectonic plate boundary, is prone to ...

“The plate boundary between the India Plate and Eurasia ... quakes that are normally less powerful than those seen in “subduction zones” like Indonesia’s Sumatra, where one plate slides ...

Scientists at the Alaska Earthquake Center are monitoring a series of earthquakes near Adak Island in the western Aleutians, ...

Scientists say the South Island quake region is still “very poorly understood” despite continued warnings of the high ...