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What is the main cause of earthquake's?

The main cause of earthquakes is when there is a sudden movement of various plate boundaries or when plates scrape against each other. Some earthquakes are also caused from old plate boundaries or faults. Many earthquakes happen at faults, such as the San Andreas Fault in California.


What type of fault causes earthquakes?

Earthquakes are typically caused by movement along a fault line, which is a fracture in the Earth's crust where rocks have shifted position relative to each other. The three main types of faults that can cause earthquakes are normal faults, reverse faults, and strike-slip faults.


How is faults and earthquakes related?

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What are the types of faults that lead to earthquakes?

The main types of faults that lead to earthquakes are normal faults, reverse faults, and strike-slip faults. Normal faults occur when the hanging wall drops down relative to the footwall, while reverse faults happen when the hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall. Strike-slip faults involve horizontal movement along the fault.


How faults produce earthquakes?

Faults DO NOT produce earthquakes, faults are produced by earthquakes. This means that earthquake loci are centered on and along faults. The energy released by an earthquake is the stress energy built up as a result of plate tectonic forces.


What are faults caused by?

earthquakes


What are earthquakes associated with?

Faults


What are the actions of the faults?

Faults can create cracks in the earth and cause earthquakes.


Can earthquakes occur at faults?

yes, they can


Do earthquakes spread the earth apart?

Not necessarily. Earthquakes occur when there is movement along cracks in the Earth's crust called faults. There are three main types of fault, all of which can produce earthquakes. Normal faults usually occur where the crust is being pulled apart. Reverse faults, also called thrust faults, are usually found where sections of the crust are pushed together. Transform faults occur where sections of the crust slide past each other horizontally, neither pushing together nor pulling apart.


What catastrophic event are faults associated with?

Earthquakes.


When faults shift what occurs?

That causes earthquakes