The colorful swirls and stripes that characterize China's Rainbow Mountains would have remained hidden without the epic ...

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

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 earthquake's destructive power stems from an enormous tectonic fault running through the middle of the country, according ...

Earthquakes are relatively common in Myanmar, where six strong quakes of 7.0 magnitude or more struck between 1930 and 1956 ...

Data by the United States Geological Survey has produced a horrifying map which shows the extent of an earthquake in Myanmar ...

The quake hit 10 miles from Mandalay, Myanmar, and tremors reached Thailand. At least 144 people died, Myanmar’s military ...

The seismic event highlights Myanmar’s vulnerability to earthquakes, largely due to its location along the Sagaing Fault, a major tectonic boundary between the Indian Plate and the Burma microplate.

Dig deeper: Earthquakes are less common on the eastern than on the western edges of the U.S. because the East Coast does not lie on a boundary of tectonic plates.

Afghanistan sits on numerous fault lines between the Indian and the Eurasian tectonic plates, with a fault line also running directly through Herat. When earthquakes strike, their magnitude is ...