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Anestetic [448]
3 years ago
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What are earthquakes and what causes them?

Geography
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Law Incorporation [45]3 years ago
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Answer:

Earthquakes are caused by a sudden release of stress along faults in the earth's crust. The continuous motion of tectonic plates causes a steady build-up of pressure in the rock strata on both sides of a fault until the stress is sufficiently great that it is released in a sudden movement.

Pavel [41]3 years ago
3 0

Answer:

Earthquakes are movement on the earth's crust. The causes of earthquakes are the slip on a fault. It realises seismic waves.

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