- What is an earthquake? a sudden violent shaking of the ground, typically causing great destruction, as a result of movements within the earth's crust or volcanic action.
- Why do earthquakes happen? earthquek are usually caused when rock underground suddenly breaks along a fault.
Crust - plates - converging, diverging, continental and oceanic
- Where do Earthquakes happen? earthquek occer all the time all over the world, both along plate edges and along faults.
Ring of fire
Examples of Earthquakes
- What is the impact of Earthquakes?
- Earthquake envierment effects are the effects caused by an earthquake on the natural environment,
Landslides
Liquefaction
What happens to cities and buildings
What happens to people
Tsunamis
- What was the strongest earthquake ever? The 1960 Valdivia earthquake or Great Chilean Earthquake
- How are earthquakes measured? (magnitude, richter scale).
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