According to reports, it was felt widely in southern California and Mexico ... a series of other recent earthquakes in Myanmar that left thousands dead, a 6.8 magnitude quake in southern Japan ...

The end-result is stark: 6.8 million acres of fire hazard zones running up and down California. "The sheer number of more cities and areas that are now being designated in a fire hazard severity ...

The earthquake, initially recorded as a 7.0 magnitude, struck around 9 AM local time with a depth of 10 kilometers. According to the US Geological Survey, the quake’s epicenter was located in offshore ...

There have been more than 14 earthquakes with a magnitude of 6 or above in the past century, including a magnitude 6.8 earthquake near Mandalay in 1956, said Brian Baptie, a seismologist with the ...

There have been more than 14 earthquakes with a magnitude of 6 or above in the past century, including a magnitude 6.8 earthquake near Mandalay in 1956, said Brian Baptie, a seismologist with the ...

The Science Behind the Powerful Earthquake in Myanmar and Thailand By ... Sagaing has been hit by several quakes in recent years, with a 6.8 magnitude event causing at least 26 deaths and dozens ...

This is where the Indian tectonic plate, to the west, meets the Sunda plate that forms much of Southeast Asia — a fault similar in scale and movement to the San Andreas Fault in California ... There ...

She is a member and current chair of the federal Advisory Committee for Earthquake Hazard Reduction (ACEHR). Her contributions to this article reflect her professional expertise and do not reflect ...

Mandalay, a city with 12-lakh population that is located barely 17 kilometres away from the earthquake's epicentre. The tremors was measured to be of 7.7 magnitude on the Richter scale, and struck at ...

The country lies on the boundary between two tectonic plates and is one of the world's most seismically active places, although large and destructive earthquakes ... with a 6.8-magnitude event ...