A civil war in Myanmar had displaced more than 3 million people long before the quake struck. U.N. Special Envoy for Myanmar Julie Bishop urged all sides to immediately cease fire, permit ...

MANDALAY, Myanmar — The death toll from a huge earthquake that hit Myanmar and Thailand passed 1,000 on Saturday, as rescuers dug through the rubble of collapsed buildings in a desperate search for ...

Sui-Lee Wee and Qasim Nauman The death toll from the powerful earthquake in Myanmar has reached 1,644, the country’s authorities said on Saturday, even as rescue workers raced against time in ...

(Bangkok) – Myanmar’s military junta should allow immediate unfettered access to humanitarian aid for earthquake survivors and lift restrictions that impede the emergency response, Human ...

The toll from Myanmar's earthquake continues to rise, as foreign rescue teams and aid rushed into the impoverished country, where hospitals were overwhelmed and some communities scrambled to mount ...

A major earthquake has rattled Tonga, an archipelago nation in the South Pacific Ocean that comprises some 170 islands. The U.S. Geological Survey estimated the 7.0 magnitude quake struck roughly ...

The 7.7-magnitude quake hit northwest of Myanmar's Sagaing at 12:50 pm (0620 GMT) on Friday at a shallow depth. It was followed minutes later by a powerful 6.7-magnitude aftershock and a dozen ...

Image: A building is damaged after the earthquake hit in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. Pic: AP Over decades, as the plates grind past each other, tension builds up in the subsurface rock. Such strike-slip ...

A powerful earthquake struck Southeast Asia on Friday, killing over 140 people in Myanmar and injuring hundreds as authorities in Thailand searched for dozens of people trapped under the rubble of ...

BANGKOK — A unilateral partial ceasefire to facilitate earthquake relief efforts was announced Saturday by Myanmar’s shadow National Unity Government, which coordinates the popular struggle ...

Rescuers are desperately searching for survivors more than four days after a powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar, toppling buildings as far away as the Thai capital Bangkok and ...

The earthquake is the most powerful to hit Myanmar in a century. “The force that a quake like this releases is about 334 atomic bombs,” geologist Jess Phoenix told CNN.