Earthquakes and the damage they cause are apolitical. Collectively, we either prepare for future earthquakes or the population eventually pays the price. The earthquakes that struck Myanmar on March ...

An international study published in Communications Earth & Environment has advanced earthquake simulations to better ...

According to a report, ‘Earthquake hazard zoning maps’, by the Building Materials Technology Promotion Council (BMPTC), as many as 95% households in the country are vulnerable to earthquakes.

Thus, the agency only calculates the probability that a significant earthquake will occur, depicted in a hazard map for a specific area within a certain number of years. Such maps are only useful ...