Large quakes produce shaking at a variety of frequencies. Some waves can travel hundreds of miles, and are amplified by local geological conditions.

Friday’s disaster provides details on Southern California’s potential Big One. “This fault is a very direct analog for the San Andreas Fault. It’s very, very similar in almost every way,” Lindsey ...

Earthquakes wreck economies and claim lives. India lost about $79.5 billion to climate disasters over twenty years. The Bhuj ...

The magnitude-7.7 earthquake that hit Myanmar on 28 March has killed at least 2,700 people, with the final death toll ...

Automatic assessments from the US Geological Survey (USGS) said the shallow 7.7-magnitude quake northwest of the central ...

In the hard-hit city of Mandalay, with its 1.2 million residents, the authorities are struggling to provide aid.

A powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake that struck central Myanmar has prompted geologists and disaster experts to warn of ...

The deadly earthquake that struck near Mandalay on Friday was caused by “strike-slip faulting” along the boundary of the ...

Yann Klinger is a seismologist at the Institut de Physique du Globe in Paris. He describes the geophysical activity in the ...

Some estimates predict more than 10,000 people died in the quake and that economic losses could exceed the gross domestic ...

Experts say that the devastating earthquake in Myanmar on Friday was likely the strongest to hit the country in decades, with ...