This country is a meeting point for several tectonic plates including the Indian-Australian, Eurasian and Pacific.

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

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

A powerful earthquake killed dozens of people in Myanmar on Friday, according to state media, toppling buildings and damaging ...

People in Mandalay, near the epicenter of the 7.7.-magnitude quake, were rushed to the main hospital. Shaking was felt hundreds of miles away in Bangkok, in neighboring Thailand.

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.

Myanmar’s military government said more than 1,600 people were injured. The 7.7-magnitude earthquake on Friday near Mandalay ...

Early Friday, a major 7.7 magnitude earthquake that originated near Mandalay, Myanmar, shook the Earth as far as Bangkok, ...

Just over half an hour after the initial quake, a shock wave from it was picked up by Irish National Seismic monitors in ...

Myanmar has declared a state of emergency in the affected regions after the earthquake struck while the country is in the ...

Follow live updates after a A huge 7.7 magnitude earthquake has rocked Myanmar causing homes to shake and collapse in ...