Aftershocks are low-scale tremors that occur hours or days after the principal earthquake and can be stressful for survivors ...
Two hard-hit cities in Myanmar suffered extensive damage, with images from the capital, Naypyidaw, showing rescue crews ...
Residents scoured collapsed buildings Sunday searching for survivors as aftershocks rattled the devastated city of Mandalay, ...
The death toll in Myanmar has exceeded 1,600, the country’s military government said. The powerful earthquake also jolted ...
Director of National Centre for Seismology (NCS) Dr OP Mishra on Friday stated that the six earthquakes that jolted Myanmar ...
A major earthquake in Myanmar on Friday has caused more than 1,600 deaths and led to the collapse of numerous structures.
Dr OP Mishra on Friday stated that the six earthquakes that jolted Myanmar were on the longest fault line, Sagaing Fault, which stretches to 1200 km. Further, he stated that this was not the first ...
researchers are able to project that other smaller earthquakes nearby, called aftershocks, are likely. Aftershocks are triggered “because of changes to stress in the Earth from the main shock ...
When the main shock occurred at 11.50 am, around 12 noon, the earthquake generated an aftershock of magnitude 7...Between 12.30 pm and 1 pm, another aftershock of magnitude 5 occurred,” Mishra t ...
A powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake has struck central Myanmar ... "Sometimes you get an aftershock that's actually larger than the main shock. So as a seismologist, you always have to be prepared to ...
Nyi Nyi Kyaw, a Myanmar academic at the University of Bristol, said Myanmar was 'wholly unable to deal with the shock and ... impact of the earthquake with further aftershocks expected.