Earthquakes

Earthquakes

An earthquake is the sudden shaking of the ground caused by the movement of tectonic plates along a fault. This movement releases stored energy, which travels as seismic waves. Earthquakes occur at all types of plate boundaries but are most common at transform boundaries, where plate...

An earthquake is a sudden movement of the Earth's crust caused by the release of energy stored in rocks. This energy travels in the form of seismic waves.

Most earthquakes occur at tectonic plate boundaries, where plates move due to the convection currents inside the Earth. According to the elastic rebound theory, an earthquake occurs when...