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Japan lies along the circum-Pacific seismic belt, better known as the "Ring of Fire," located along the outer edges of the Pacific Ocean, where about 81 percent of the largest earthquakes in the ...

The quake flattened buildings, downed bridges and cracked roads across swathes of Myanmar, and even demolished a 30-story ...

The report predicts up to 12.3 million evacuees one week after the earthquake. That's 10 percent of Japan's population. It says the disaster would result in economic damage of 270.3 trillion yen ...

The Ava Bridge was previously blown up by the British in 1939 as Japan invaded, having been built under Empire rule in 1934.

The tremors came days after Japan warned that a powerful earthquake in the Nakai Trough could kill up to 300,000 people and set off destructive tsunamis in Japan. It also comes soon after two ...

More than 1,600 people have died after a powerful earthquake hit Myanmar and rattled Thailand, but the extent of the ...

An earthquake of 6.0 magnitude struck Japan's Kyushu on Wednesday, according to the National Center for Seismology. No reports of any damage have been reported yet. Tremors of the first earthquake ...

The Valdivian Earthquake, or the Great Chilean Earthquake, is the largest on record. It measured in at a magnitude of 9.5.