The tick attaching itself to the skin of the dog is the parasitic relationship because the tick is relying on the dog as a host in order to live.
Well, when there is earthquakes, the earthquakes move around most of the fossils into other places and other continents and rivers and oceans, so earthquakes move all the fossils.
Long term: I could either help a species have more genetic variation or wipe out an entire species. Short term: it could decrease food resources for other species.