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How to Protect Yourself in an Earthquake
Many popular vacation destinations, like California, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Thailand and the Caribbean are in active quake ...
Desperate search for survivors in Myanmar as death toll surges past 1,600
More than 1,600 people have died after a powerful earthquake hit Myanmar and rattled Thailand, but the extent of the ...
Why was the Myanmar quake felt in Bangkok, and how safe is Singapore?
The Sumatran fault, similar to the Sagaing fault that caused the Myanmar quake, is just 400km away from Singapore. Read more ...
Tears in Taiwan for relatives hit by Myanmar quake
As images of destroyed buildings in earthquake-hit Myanmar flashed across her television screen in Taiwan, Yang Bi-ying could ...
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Why Was the Earthquake in Myanmar and Thailand So Devastating?
A magnitude 7.7 earthquake in Myanmar caused widespread shaking and likely considerable damage because of a lack of buildings ...
Trump says the US will help in Asia quake. A former official says the system is now in ‘shambles’
The effects of Trump administration’s deep cuts in foreign assistance through the U.S. Agency for International Development ...
AI can predict when an earthquake might strike — here’s how
The U.S. Geologic Survey (USGS) insists that earthquake forecasting is not possible. Thus, the agency only calculates the ...
Huge Myanmar Earthquake Collapses Bangkok High-Rise Building
Myanmar in southeast Asia was hit by a 7.7 magnitude earthquake, seismologists in the U.S. said. It was shortly followed by another 6.4 quake. There are reports of toppled buildings and trapped people ...