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What percentage of earthquakes comes from the largest earthquake belt?
81% of earthquakes
How do triangle help in earthquakes?
Triangle structures a stable when it comes to earthquakes.
Are there earthquakes in the water?
Earthquakes IN the water? No. Earthquakes UNDER the water, yes - underwater earthquakes cause most of the Tsunamis, including the one that hit Indonesia a couple of years ago. Yes There are earthquakes under the water; many of them start there.
How do earthquakes cause tsunanis?
Tectonic plates move as earthquakes exists. The crust shakes. As a result, the water goes down to the tectonic plates and comes back as big waves not exceeding 10-15 meters.
What are the special features of earthquakes and volcanoes?
the earthquakes special feature is that the land is splitting and a huge crack comes and splits the land. the volcanoes special feature is that the lava comes from the core and comes out of the hole of the volcano.
What Greek word comes from earthquakes?
The greek word for earthquakes is seismos (σεισμός) . A word that derives from that is seismology : the scientific study of earthquakes, seismic activity etc
Can earthquakes occur in water?
Yes. Earthquakes are caused when the plates in the earth shift and there are still plates that shift in the water.
Do earthquakes occur in the edges of the continents?
yes it comes on the coast
Can hurricanes and earthquakes happen underwater?
Hurricanes do not form underwater, as they require warm ocean water. Earthquakes can certainly occur underwater, known as underwater earthquakes, and can trigger tsunamis due to the displacement of water.
What body of water do earthquakes form?
Earthquakes come from shifts in tectonic plates of the earth. Some of the rifts between these are in bodies of water.
Why are there fewer earthquakes in the center of the US than on the west coast?
Because the water attracts earthquakes
How are earthquakes created in the water?
They are not. Earthquakes at sea occur in the sea bed under the water, the same as they do on any part of the land. Sometimes this sudden movement will cause enough of the seabed to shift so as to cause a tsunami.
