Spanning 5,000 km along the Indian Ocean, the ridge was shaped ... to the ancient Tethys Ocean and mantle changes caused by tectonic plate shifts. Researchers used advanced models to simulate ...

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

Everest, about 60 million years ago, was the rapid movement of India northward toward the continent of EuroAsia; Click here for a present-day map of ... by the Earth's tectonic plates like people ...

She noted that this would happen because the Indian tectonic plate continues to crash with the Eurasian plate beneath Myanmar. The geologist further noted that there could be hindrances in ...

It is highly prone to earthquakes due to its location on the boundary of the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates.

Earthquakes are relatively common in Myanmar, where six strong quakes of 7.0 magnitude or more struck between 1930 and 1956 ...

The seismic event highlights Myanmar’s vulnerability to earthquakes, largely due to its location along the Sagaing Fault, a major tectonic boundary between the Indian Plate and the Burma microplate.

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.