How are earthquakes related to plates and faults?

Answer 1

Plate tectonics is when the plates on the earth's surface move, colliding into one another. When two plates collide, they can cause continental crust to be altered significantly. This can happen by displacing things such as roads and bridges, or by raising or lowering the ground. Plate tectonics can continue to make convergent boundaries and reverse faults slip after an earthquake, which is called an aftershock.

Answer 2

Plates move and shift to create faults. The most common cause of earthquakes are faults. the plates build up tension between one another, and once the plates slip, there is a disturbance in the earth; this is shaking and trembling, and is called an earthquake.

Answer 3

the relationship between plate tectonics and earthquakes is the at they are both underground and they do the same damage because a earthquake shakes and moves earth and a plate moves and cracks earth.

Answer 4

Most of the earthquakes happen along the tectonic plates. When plates move, they scrape against each other and create earthquakes. The plates build up pressure, and when they finally give, a big earthquake occurs. An example is Loma Prieta in 1989 which happened because of moving plates along the San Andreas fault line.

Answer 5

Earthquakes are related to tectonic plates because they occur at boundaries where plates interact, such as convergent or transform boundaries. When the plates move past each other, they can get stuck due to friction, causing stress to build up until it is released suddenly in the form of an earthquake along a fault line.

Answer 6

During an earthquake the crust on either both or one side of a fault is in motion.

Answer 7

Earthquakes could occur when the plates slip against each other slightly.

Answer 8

Plate tectonics move, so when two plate tectonics move towards