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Most earthquakes happen in the Ring of Fire, a region around the Pacific Ocean including Japan, Indonesia, Chile, and the USA, to name a few.
Earthquakes can happen on islands if the island is on the perimeter of a tectonic plate. For instance earthquakes can not happen on the island of Australia as it is on a tectonic plate however in New Zealand earthquakes happen frequently because it is on the perimeter of the tectonic plate Australia is on.
There are a few ways this can happen. First, earthquakes are associated with movement along faults. This movement can alter the surface terrain. The shaking of an earthquake can also cause wet soil and sediment to behave like a liquid.
the techtonic plates moving, earthquakes mainly happen on the crakes in the techtonic plates like new zealand has quite a few because they are on a crack.
gap hypothesis
Few earthquakes happen in the earths mantle do to the fact that the mantle has a folded deformation. This means that the amount of pressure on the mantle caused it to deform.
A few earthquakes happen in the mantle because of the folded deformation.Hopes this help. =D
Few earthquakes happen in the mantle because of the folded deformation.
a few cent. per year...
Earthquakes are very hard to predict a long time before they happen, they can only br predicted a few minutes before they are going to happen
Extremely few. Most earthquakes happen in the ocean, or too far below the crust for us to feel them, but hundreds happen every week.
Earthquakes, Volcanic eruptions, tsunami, and typhoons are a few.
Earthquakes take place in the Earth's tectonic plates, which are not thick enough to have earthquakes deeper than 20 km. Below the plates is the magma of the Earth's mantle, and being liquid, the magma does not experience quakes, just currents.
The colliding plates in the Himalayas still produce plenty of stress in the crust, which leads to earthquakes. On the other hand there is no mechanism to generate magma. There is no hot spot, no thinning of the crust, and no subducting plate to introduce volatiles into the mantle.
Most earthquakes happen in the Ring of Fire, a region around the Pacific Ocean including Japan, Indonesia, Chile, and the USA, to name a few.
The reason why is simple. When a volcano erupts, it ruptures the earth's inner core, causing a few aftershocks of earthquakew.
Earthquakes can happen on islands if the island is on the perimeter of a tectonic plate. For instance earthquakes can not happen on the island of Australia as it is on a tectonic plate however in New Zealand earthquakes happen frequently because it is on the perimeter of the tectonic plate Australia is on.