Earthquakes

A magnitude-4.6 earthquake shakes parts of the Hunter region with impacts felt as far away as Tamworth and Canberra.

Julie Bishop has made her second visit to military-ruled Myanmar since her UN appointment last year, meeting with the foreign minister as the nation recovers from an earthquake that killed more than 3,600 people.

The deadly Myanmar earthquake last week was the biggest among a number of smaller quakes that rocked the region.

Long-shot efforts to find survivors from Myanmar’s devastating March 28 earthquake are winding down, as rescue efforts are supplanted by increasing relief and recovery activity.

Myanmar's diaspora in Australia has been left reeling from the earthquake that has now killed more than 3,000 people.

A magnitude-6.9 earthquake has struck off Papua New Guinea's coast on Saturday morning.   

As Beijing silences mentions of the skyscraper building that collapsed in Bangkok, the Chinese company involved in the project faces mounting scrutiny in Thailand.

As the number killed in the devastating earthquake continues to rise and rescue efforts continue, forecast rain threatens to further worsen a desperate situation in Myanmar.

The ruling military junta says it fired warning shots at the group because the convoy failed to stop and it hadn't told them they were working in an active combat zone.

The United States is sending a three-person disaster response team to earthquake-stricken Myanmar, days after much larger contingents from China and Russia began pulling people out of the rubble.

Multiple Western aid agencies said they have struggled to get personnel into Myanmar as the ruling junta leads the response to the country's largest natural disaster in years.

Human rights groups fear the military is using logistical challenges as an excuse to withhold aid from rebel-held areas.

More than three days since the massive earthquake that rocked the region, rescuers are finding survivors under the rubble but time is fast running out to save others who haven't been found.

Foreign rescue teams and aid have rushed into the impoverished country, where communities scrambled to mount rescue efforts with limited resources.

Melissa Hein from the World Food Programme says Myanmar has been facing a number of aftershocks, with water supplies and electricity still cut off.

After an earthquake in Myanmar, more than 2,000 people are dead, rescue crews are searching the rubble of a skyscraper in Bangkok, and aid is struggling to reach people in need of medical care, food and water.

The rescue is a glimmer of hope as teams race against time to save more lives during the critical 72-hour "golden period" after the magnitude-7.7 earthquake.

China's national rescue team successfully pulled a woman from the rubble of a collapsed hotel in Myanmar's Mandalay. 

An earthquake with its epicentre in central Myanmar caused havoc as far away as Bangkok.

In Myanmar, there are reports of screaming coming from piles of rubble as the window to find earthquake survivors is quickly diminishing.