A massive 7.7 earthquake originating in Myanmar has collapsed buildings over 600 miles away in Bangkok, Thailand ...

In regions of convergence, one plate can sink under another in a subduction zone, or two colliding plates can form a mountain belt. At divergent boundaries, plates move away from each other and ...

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.

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

Powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar's Sagaing region causes extensive damage, shaking neighbouring Thailand, with ...

At collision zones fold mountains will be formed. These are plate boundaries where two plates are either slipping past each other in opposite directions or at different rates in the same direction.

For millions of years, Earth’s shifting plates have shaped continents, formed oceans, and built towering mountain ranges. But ...

The Cascadia subduction zone, where the oceanic Juan de Fuca plate descends beneath the overlying North American plate, extends 1100 km from northern California to northern Vancouver Island.

“The plate boundary between the India Plate and Eurasia ... that are normally less powerful than those seen in “subduction zones” like Indonesia’s Sumatra, where one plate slides under ...

Oceans are not necessarily a permanent fixture on Earth, as they are able to appear and close due to the work of plate tectonics. More specifically, subduction zones — where tectonic plates slip ...

This volcanic arc delineates the boundary between the ... Range on the Alaska Peninsula). This zone marks the interface where the denser Pacific oceanic plate subducts beneath the less dense ...