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Can an earthquake cause a twister or tornado?
No, earthquakes and tornadoes are separate natural phenomena with distinct causes. Earthquakes are caused by the movement of tectonic plates beneath the Earth's surface, while tornadoes are atmospheric events that occur in specific weather conditions. There is no direct connection between earthquakes and tornadoes.
Why doesn't the Mariana trench produce earthquakes?
The Mariana Trench is a subduction zone where one tectonic plate is sliding beneath another. Earthquakes are commonly generated by the movement and interaction of Earth's tectonic plates, but in this case, the slow and steady subduction process does not typically produce the type of seismic activity associated with shallower fault lines.
What plate boundaries have the largest magnitude earthquakes?
The plate boundaries that have the largest magnitude earthquakes are convergent plates. Convergent plates are moving together and eventually collide. These plates are usually along the edge of an ocean and next to a continent.
Do most transform faults produce moderateshallow quakes?
Most transform faults do produce moderate to shallow earthquakes. These earthquakes occur as a result of the movement between two tectonic plates sliding past each other horizontally. The stress buildup along these faults can lead to the release of seismic energy in the form of earthquakes.
Movements following a major earthquake often produce smaller earthquakes called?
Aftershock
What term describes areas where the earths plates move against each other and produce earthquakes?
fault lines
Why do most earthquakes occur near tectonic plate boundaries?
Tectonic plates move along, against, or away from eachother at their boundaries. These movements produce earthquakes
Why do Earthquakes most commonly occur near tectonic plate boundaries.?
Tectonic plates move along, against, or away from eachother at their boundaries. These movements produce earthquakes
Why does an earthquake zone have earthquakes if no volcanoes are there?
Volcanoes are not the primary cause of earthquakes. Most earthquakes result from the stresses created by tectonic plates moving past or against one another. At transform boundaries there is no mechanism to produce volcanoes, but the movement of the plates will still cause earthquakes. Stresses within a plate can also cause earthquakes.
What are the geologic factors that produce earthquakes?
It depends
Describes organisms or genotypes that are homozygous for a specific trait and thus always produce offspring that have the same phenotype for that trait?
True-breeding
What do earthquakes that occur on seafloor produce?
tsunamis are likely
Do Tsunamis produce earthquakes?
no the earthquake produces the tsunami
How faults produce earthquakes?
Faults DO NOT produce earthquakes, faults are produced by earthquakes. This means that earthquake loci are centered on and along faults. The energy released by an earthquake is the stress energy built up as a result of plate tectonic forces.
What giant sea wave produce during earthquakes?
Tsunami
When earthquakes occur what waves do they produce?
Seismic waves and tsunamis.
Earthquakes produce what that travel through earth?
Seismic waves
