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New findings provide a greater understanding of plate subduction, or how tectonic plates slide beneath one another. This recycling of surface materials and volatile elements deep into the Earth's ...

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

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But the earthquake was particularly devastating to areas near the Sagaing Fault, which runs north-south through the center of Myanmar, destroying buildings and roads and downing power lines.

Myanmar is considered to be one of the most geologically "active" areas in the world because it sits on top of the ...

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.

The Earth’s crust is broken up into several pieces called tectonic plates, which fit together like a jigsaw ... In regions of the world with known active fault lines, including California and Japan, ...