What is taking place inside Myanmar is a humanitarian disaster, but it matters for another, more abstract reason, too.

A major earthquake has rattled Tonga, an archipelago nation in the South Pacific Ocean that comprises some ... followed another massive one Friday in Myanmar, which had a magnitude of 7.7 and ...

Death toll from catastrophic earthquake surges to over 1,000 in Myanmar Here are the 10 largest earthquakes in world history since 1900, according to the U.S. Geological Survey: 10. Indian Ocean ...

CDS General Anil Chauhan emphasized the Indian Ocean's crucial role as India's destiny, given geopolitical constraints with ...

Marie Manrique, Myanmar Program Coordinator ... some rooftop pools producing crashing waves like the ocean, while others created cascading waterfalls. In a city not used to earthquakes, panic ...

Myanmar has been hit by a magnitude 7.7 earthquake ... When the energy is released below the ocean, it creates a series of huge waves known as a tsunami. Aftershocks are triggered “because ...

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Marie Manrique, Myanmar program coordinator for the International ... which includes the Indian subcontinent and part of the Indian Ocean, and the Sunda Plate, a smaller bit of crust that includes ...

Rescuers are racing against time to save people trapped under debris after a massive earthquake left an ocean of devastation in civil-war torn Myanmar last week. The true scale of devastation in ...

Myanmar is considered to be one of the most ... "General poverty, major political upheaval, alongside other disasters - e.g. the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 - has distracted the country from ...