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What is the place along a fault where the slipping that causes begins the earthquake?
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What Is the place along a fault where the slipping that causes an earthquake begins?
Focus/Hypocenter
What is the area along the fault where an earthquake begins?
A fault line.
What is the vibration caused when there is movement along a fault?
It causes and earthquake
The point along a fault at which the first motion of an earthquake occurs?
The epicenter is the point where motion begins on a fault line in the event of an earthquake. This location is seen as the origin of the earthquake itself and can help determine how much damage has been done in different areas.
What were the natural causes of the 1989 san francisco earthquake?
Rupture along a 40 km section of the San Andreas fault.
What is a focus of an earthquake?
its directly below the epicenter
When does an earthquake occur along a fault?
plates of the earth crash into each other along faults causing an earthquake
What types of plate boundaries are associated with deep earthquakes?
All of them. For example: the earthquake of 2010 in Chile happened along a convergent fault while the 2010 earthquake in Haiti happened along a transform fault. Source: I am just a genius...
What leads to earthquakes along a fault?
bending of the rocks followed by slipping...
Earthquake foci can be used to mark the boundaries of what earth features?
Earthquake foci can be used to mark the earths plate boundaries . The movement along the plate boundary causes the earthquake. Knowing where the foci is can help predict future earthquakes in that scientists can monitor the area for shifts in the plates.
The largest earthquake of the twentieth century occurred along the coast of which continent?
The largest earthquake of the 20th Century happened along the coast of South America. It is known as the Great Chilean Earthquake.
What part do plate tectonics play when discussing earthquakes?
Oh, how I do hope you are below an 8th grade level to be asking this question. The cause of an earthquake is the plates and faults scraping and moving along eachother, the movement of the plates causes the earthquake. That is how they are involved.
