WHAT CAN EARTHQUAKES DO? HOW ARE THEY FORMED? |
WHAT MAY CAUSE EARTHQUAKES? |
An earthquake is a vibration of the Earth produced by a rapid release of energy. The main features include the focus, the location within the Earth where the earthquake rupture starts, and the epicenter, the point on the Earth’s surface directly above the focus.
No part of the earth’s surface is free from earthquakes, but some are more likely to have one then others. The most common places earthquakes are where the plates meet, such as New Zealand, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, Japan, America and Indonesia. When people experience earthquakes numerous things can happen such as building fall down, lives are lost, house business, tsunamis can be caused due to the movement of the surface and sometimes you may find that when there is and earthquakes on one places they happen in an other not long after, such as earthquake in Toronto or Greece and trigger earthquakes in India, with no reason why. |
Earthquakes are caused by the movement of tectonic plates, and with the movement of the plates cause the breakage of the earth’s surface.
When two plate touch they create movement in the ground that is how they make earthquakes, the reason they happen is each year tectonic plate can move from 2 too 10 centimeters a year and during the time that the plate move some would touch and cause an earthquake. There is another type of earthquake; it is called Large Shallow Earthquakes and it happen when two plates are pulled apart with the creation of new oceanic crust along mid-ocean. These types of Earthquakes are not common and do not follow easily recognizable patterns. |