Located at the south-western end of Old Dhaka, Shahidnagar sits along the shores of the Buriganga River. The neighbourhood is congested with buildings and narrow alleys, like the rest of the Old Dhaka ...

A study by Rajuk estimates that a 6.9-magnitude earthquake along the Madhupur Fault Line could flatten over ... In contrast, the 2010 Haiti earthquake (magnitude 7.0) caused nearly 230,000 deaths ...

Massive earthquakes worst-hit countries in 5 years The post Massive Earthquakes: Worst-Hit Countries in 5 Years appeared ...

Mwanner at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ , via Wikimedia Commons Our planet is alive with motion, constantly ...

What makes Turkey even more vulnerable is the movement from the Anatolian plate is essentially slipping along the fault lines of ... moderate earthquake magnitudes. The same can’t be said for regions ...

Haiti faces frequent ... its location on tectonic fault lines. Poor infrastructure worsens the impact, making it highly vulnerable to catastrophic events. The 2010 earthquake devastated the ...

While not a household name like the San Andreas, the Elsinore fault is part of a larger seismic zone that experts fear and ...

The 5.2-magnitude earthquake on Monday shook the ground and nerves in San Diego, but some scientists were already scanning the ocean floor for tremors.

In this type of fault, the block of rock above the fault plane, known as the hanging wall, moves downward relative to the block below, called the footwall. Normal faults are typically found at ...