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Other factors that can cause faults to slip and produce quakes include: relatively sudden build-ups of weight at the surface (e.g. flooding of large reservoirs) which activate previously dormant faults; and the movement of molten rock in volcanically active areas - here the magma forces its way through weak points in the rock and can cause local tremors.

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