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What causes earthquakes what areas in North America are more prone to earthquake activity?
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∙ 13y ago
Earthquakes are caused by the shifting of the Earth's plates usually at transform boundaries. California is a major earthquake area in NA because of the San Andreas fault line.
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What type of fault causes earthquakes?
Subduction Zones and Transform faults can produce Earthquakes.
How does subduction cause earthquakes?
the disturbment of the earth's tectonic plates causes an earthquake. It basically causes a couple of plates to crash.
What events causes tsunamis?
Under water earth quakes, landslides,volcanic eruptions, under water explosions and the impact of a meteorite or comet.
Does an earthquake occur when magma from the magma chamber rises?
That causes some earthquakes, but most earthquakes occur as a result of tectonic plate grinding against each other.
What causes an earthquake and how you know weather it is likely to happen in a particular location?
It is when two tectonic plates collide and they rubs, this causes the rubble which you get from the earthquake. You only get earthquakes if your country is in between a tectonic plate or on the tectonic plate.
What is the vibration caused when there is movement along a fault?
It causes and earthquake
How volcanism causes earthquake?
volcanism can not cause earthquakes
What is an earthquake and a seismic activity?
A seismic activity is an earthquake... An earthquake is when the tectonic plates (under ground) clash together, which causes an earthquake. Earthquakes can be very small or huge depending on where the country is. They can kill thousands of people, knock down buildings and create huge cracks in the ground. They are measured on a Richter scale. :)
What type of stress causes an earthquake?
shifting of the earth's crust causes earthquakes
Why is an earthquake extreme?
Earthquakes causes a miassive display of DISTRUCTION.
What r the causes of earthquake?
Shifting of tectonic plates cause earthquakes.
What causes patterns in earthquake activity?
The shifting of plates causes patterns in earthquake activity. Different plates shift in different degrees depending on the friction and temperatures involved.
Sudden stress changes in the earth that causes ground shaking?
earthquake=]
Can earthquakes cause volcano erruptions?
Earthquakes can cause volcanos to errupt by the plates moving and crashing into one other which creates an earthquake(when plates collide it causs an earthquake) so the force of the earthquake causes a volcano erruption.
What is tectonic earthquake means?
It is the unsual movement of tectonic plates which causes tectonic earthquakes.
Is the San Andreas fault an earthquake or not?
No it's a fault line that causes earthquakes sometimes.
What Weather causes an Earthquake?
Earthquakes are not caused by weather. The are caused by movement of tectonic plates.
