Turkey has begun a new phase in restorations of the nearly 1,500-year-old Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, focusing on preserving ...

Turkey has begun a new phase in sweeping restorations of the nearly 1,500-year-old Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, focusing on ...

The people of Myanmar have often turned to the clergy for aid during natural disasters. But last month’s earthquake was also ...

focusing on preserving the monument's historic domes from the threat of earthquakes. Officials say the project will include reinforcing Hagia Sophia's main dome and half domes, replacing the worn ...

Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Maldives, and Thailand suffered the worst damage. 1976 Tangshan Earthquake (China): On July 28, 1976, a magnitude-7.5 earthquake nearly wiped out the coal-mining city ...

Video by AFP Supported by By Malachy Browne The powerful earthquake that shook Myanmar ... Buddhist monasteries and reducing centuries-old monuments to rubble, according to photographs and videos ...

This ancient temple city’s 2,200 11th- to 13th-century monuments sustained significant damage in the country’s last major earthquake in 2016 (three years before its Unesco listing).

during all previous 7-magnitude or larger earthquakes along the Sagaing fault, Myanmar was relatively undeveloped, with mostly low-rise timber-framed buildings and brick-built religious monuments, ...