Earthquakes are becoming increasingly frequent. On Sunday morning, four earthquakes struck parts of India, Myanmar, and Tajikistan within just one hour, sending tremors across central and South ...

A magnitude 7.7 earthquake in Myanmar caused widespread shaking and likely considerable damage because of a lack of buildings built to withstand temblors ...

A tremor of 2.5 or less usually cannot be felt but can be detected by instruments. Quakes of up to five are felt and cause minor damage. The Myanmar earthquake at 7.7 is classified as major and ...

number of injured and damage toll may not be known for some time. The quake also caused a skyscraper in Bangkok, Thailand, to collapse. On the scale of earthquake magnitudes, anything over 7.0 is ...

A rescue team in Mandalay, the city closest to the earthquake's epicentre, tells the BBC they "are digging people out with ...

Earthquakes are becoming increasingly ... It introduced the concept of a logarithmic scale, where each whole-number increase represents a tenfold increase in ground motion and approximately ...

This has replaced the Richter scale, which is now considered outdated and less accurate. The number attributed to an earthquake represents a combination of the distance the fault line has moved ...