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How do earthquakes hapen?

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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

A2. Earthquakes happen At Fault boundaries when the boundary zone can no longer withstand the accumulated strain. It is this strain release phase and its subsequent resilience that is the actual earthquake.

This could be a common fault boundary, or a subduction zone boundary.

A1. Earthquakes happen when the plates underneath the earths surface come in contact and rub against each other.

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14y ago

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