When nuclear weapons are tested underground, these cause measurable earthquakes. As a matter of fact, anomalous and unexplained seismic activity is often recorded by the appropriate agencies of some countries to monitor nuclear weapons testing by other nations.
Earthquakes are caused by geologic forces.
A normal fault caused the 1556 Shaanxi earthquake.
It depends on the intensity of the earthquake and the type of slippage that caused it.
a conservative one
It was a Transform Boundary.
a big one
transform boundary
On February 4th, 1965, a reverse fault caused the Rat Islands Earthquake, Alaska, at 5:01 A.M.
It was a conservative earthquake caused by tectonic plates under ground, that rub together to make friction.
Tectonic plates formed the earthquake in 1960 due to a collision with one another.
Tectonic plates caused the earthquake, the Pacific and North American plate were rubbing against each other, and this caused the earthquake. the earthquake caused the Tsunami.
a tsunami