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What is usually responsible for earthquakes?

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Anonymous

∙ 9y ago
Updated: 3/16/2022

This is usually a result of the Earth's many plates moving about and crashing into one another. Plates are what Earth's crust is divided into, for example, California is on another plate that Maryland.

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