Myanmar was struck by a massive 7.7-magnitude earthquake, followed by another one of 6.4 on the Richter Scale today, which claimed several lives and toppled buildings, ruptured roads and collapsed ...

The myth holds that small earthquakes relieve stress from a fault to the point that it prevents a larger earthquake from happening in the future. However, Tobin said that’s not how faults work.

This research not only sheds light on the seismic behavior of the Main Marmara Fault near Istanbul, but also serves as a critical reminder of the ongoing threat that earthquakes pose to urban ...

(A) The distributions of tectonic units and earthquakes. (B) The triangles indicate positions of the seismometers. Orange triangles represent Group 1 stations situated in proximity to the fault zone.