A powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake rocked Thailand and Myanmar overnight, destroying buildings, bridges, and a monastery.

A powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake hit central Myanmar (formerly Burma) Friday (March 28), shaking Mandalay, the country's ...

Several people were injured, items fell off shelves in stores, and some windows were broken, according to the Southern California Earthquake Data Center. On New Year’s Day in 1979, a magnitude 5.2 ...

The USGS reported the earthquake's depth as 4.6 kilometers. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. According to Michigan Tech, this earthquake magnitude is usually not even felt ...

An earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter Scale hit Myanmar with its tremors and aftershocks being felt in parts of Thailand ...

Harvard Students for Myanmar — in collaboration with around 30 other universities — raised more than $60,000 as of Monday ...

Earthquakes really pose little direct danger to a person. People can't be shaken to death by an earthquake. Some movies show scenes with the ground suddenly opening up and people falling into fiery ...

There are a number of ways to measure the magnitude of an earthquake. Most scales are based on the amplitude of seismic waves recorded on seismometers. These scales account for the distance between ...