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What type of energy is stored in the Earth's crust and produces earthquakes when it is released?
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∙ 6y ago
Heat may simply permeate through insulating rock, and subsequently radiate into space. As pressure builds up from the motion of plates riding on convection currents within the mantle, energy release will frequently take the form of earth quakes--violent motions of the earth as one plate slips or shifts against another. A vivid image of this exists in IRIS seismic data which outlines the "Ring of Fire."
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∙ 10y ago
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∙ 14y agoWhen earthquakes occur they release elastic potential energy (which may also be known as elastic strain energy) in the form of seismic waves.
Please see the related question for a more detailed description of earthquakes.
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∙ 6y agoEarthquakes release energy by seismic waves
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∙ 11y agothe focus of the earthquake releases all the energy and the it just transmits out in waves around the focus
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∙ 13y agoPotential Energy
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∙ 13y agoseismic wave
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∙ 11y agoSeismic waves
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∙ 6y agopotential energy
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12
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seismic wave
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Seismic
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The force that cause Earthquakes as rocks to move and break are called plate tectonics
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The word magnitude (in the context of earthquakes) is used to describe the amount of energy released when one occurs.
Vibrations that move through the ground carrying the energy released during an earthquake are called?
in an earthquake, movement along the fault move and break, releasing energy as________
How is the amount of energy released by an earthquakes magnitude?
It is caused by the rotation of earth.
