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A quiet Friday afternoon in central Myanmar was shattered on March 28, 2025, when a massive magnitude 7.7 earthquake tore through the region. The rupture followed the notorious Sagaing Fault, a strike ...
This week's global news highlights include South Korea's trade negotiations with the U.S., unrest in the Gaza Strip, and ...
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake shook Japan’s northern Hokkaido region on Monday, sending tremors through several districts and briefly startling residents, media reports said. The Japan Meteorological ...
Megathrust earthquakes are large earthquakes that occur on faults found along the boundaries between tectonic plates. The ...
Researchers have published an investigation into the mysteries behind an enormous "hidden" earthquake that caused a global tsunami last year. In a study published in Geophysical Research Letters ...
The earthquake was centered far offshore of Argentina near uninhabited Montagu Island and not reported felt by anyone. The August 8.1 also produced a tsunami, with a peak height of 2.5 feet on ...
An early-warning system on Android phones has detected more than 1,000 earthquakes worldwide since 2021, sometimes giving ...
In August 2021, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake hit near the South Sandwich Islands, creating a tsunami that rippled around the globe. The epicenter was 47 kilometers below the Earth's surface—too ...
For the Northridge earthquake, for instance, relatively affluent areas were more likely to contribute strong shaking reports, and strong shaking levels from poorer areas may be underrepresented in ...