This couldn't be farther from the truth. Several major and numerous minor earthquakes have occurred in the midwestern and eastern United States, as well as eastern Canada. Over 900,000 earthquakes ...

A major earthquake in Myanmar on Friday has caused more than 3,000 deaths and led to the collapse of numerous structures. Even though the south-east Asian nation is a high risk region for ...

A week ago, a magnitude 7.6 earthquake ... along the eastern margin of the Caribbean and more than 220 earthquakes of M≥6 have been recorded in the past 75 years. The largest earthquake in ...

Most earthquakes occur at the edges of the earth’s 15 major tectonic ... sits in the middle of a plate. Its seismic history—and the magnitude 5.8 Virginia quake that shook the East Coast ...

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) — A 7.7 magnitude earthquake and an aftershock measuring 6.4 rocked Myanmar and neighboring Thailand on Friday, destroying buildings, a bridge and a dam. At least 144 ...

The powerful earthquake also jolted other parts of Southeast ... based in London who covers breaking news in Africa, the Middle East and Europe. John Yoon is a Times reporter based in Seoul ...

In Mandalay, Myanmar's second-largest city and close to the epicenter, the earthquake damaged part of the former royal palace and buildings, according to videos and photos released on Facebook ...