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Earthquakes are primarily caused by tectonic stress, which occurs when the Earth's tectonic plates interact. This stress can result from three main types of tension: compressional stress, where plates push together; tensional stress, where plates pull apart; and shear stress, where plates slide past one another. When the accumulated stress exceeds the strength of the rocks, it releases energy in the form of seismic waves, causing an earthquake.
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What kind of scientist studies ways of predicting earthquakes?
A seismologist studies earthquakes, their causes and effects.
Can you stop earthquakes?
No, earthquakes happen on there own. Kind of like how you can't stop tsunamis, tornadoes, or hurricanes.
Where are earthquakes generally more violent?
Along a boundary where tension builds up over a great period of time. Ducis!);
What is a positive effect of an earthquake?
Earthquakes relieve the tension building between tectonic plates. so, loads of small earthquakes lessen the chance that a massive earthquake will happen along the same plate boundary.
What kind of landforms happen from earthquakes?
Mountains of tectonic plates i think!
What kind of stress causes earthquakes?
Three different kinds of stress casue earthquakes, tension, compression, and sheraring From a 6th grader, Yep
What do sliding plates release that causes earthquakes?
Sliding plates release tension and energy to cause earthquakes.
When was A Different Kind of Tension created?
A Different Kind of Tension was created in 1979.
What could cause an earthquake?
Seismic waves cause vibrations which leads to earthquakes
Do scientist have the power to control or predict earthquakes?
Scientists have no power to control earthquakes, nor to specifically predict them, but a logical area that the earthquakes would take place is along the plates of the earths crust. (Their shifting leads to earthquakes)
Stress in Earth's crust leads to movement and changes in Earth's lithosphere that result in?
earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and the formation of mountain ranges.
Why do strong earthquakes happen in ceartain places?
The earth's crust is divided up into large sections called tectonic plates. The plates slowly grind past each other, which often builds up tension. When this tension is released earthquakes are the result. For this reason nearly all major earthquakes happen at the boundaries between plates.
How was the new Madrid fault formed?
the tension built up make earthquakes around this area
Why when and where do earthquakes strike?
It is when two plates in the earth because of the release of stress or tension in the earth's lithosphere.
How can a reader determine the climax of a story?
The climax is the point of maximum tension. You simply decide if there is any point with more tension after that scene, or if the tension slacks off and leads to the story's end.
What kind of scientist studies the ways of predicting earthquakes?
A seismologist studies earthquakes, their causes and effects.
What kind of scientist studies ways of predicting earthquakes?
A seismologist studies earthquakes, their causes and effects.
