How does an earthquake work?

Question

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Answer 1

An earthquake is what happens when two blocks of the earth suddenly slip past one another.  The surface where they slip is called the fault or fault plane.  The location below the earth’s surface where the earthquake starts is called the hypocenter, and the location directly above it on the surface of the earth is called the epicenter.

Sometimes an earthquake has foreshocks.  These are smaller earthquakes that happen in the same place as the larger earthquake that follows.  Scientists can’t tell that an earthquake is a foreshock until the larger earthquake happens.  The largest, main earthquake is called the mainshock. Mainshocks always have aftershocks that follow.  These are smaller earthquakes that occur afterwards in the same place as the mainshock.  Depending on the size of the mainshock, aftershocks can continue for weeks, months, and even years after the mainshock!!

Answer 2

very hard. Long shifts, low pay.

being an earth quake ain't easy

Answer 3

Two plates gradually build up tension and are very slowly deformed, eventually (the stronger the rock the longer it'll hold up - this is also one of the factors that determines how much energy the quake will release) it will be unable to take anymore deformation and it will snap back into its original form - elastic rebound, releasing all of its energy and thus producing an earthquake.

Answer 4

the tension released from plate tectonics moving either apart of towards each other

Answer 5

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http://www.mediafire.com/?1bbdzzdml1e  you will become full knowledgeable man on earthquakes and Tsunami. Or closely watch my answer for several of the questions asked by the people in this section for my answer. I am doing research on early warning system for earthquakes.I am the one issued the warning 2 hours before Tsunami struck our coast.But my warning was ignored.

Let me also explain in brief. The earth is consisting of several layers.The top most layer is called crust.The second layer is hard rocks called lithosphere.The hard rocks were broken in to several pieces long ago called tectonic plates.These plates are moving at the rate of about 50 to 100 mm per year because of heat under lithosphere.The moving of tectonic plates create stress at the edge. When the stress exceed the bearable limit it slips and causes earthquakes.

Answer 6

Giant worms under ground,

Answer 7

the earth as plates and when one plate rubs up against another it creates waves of movement and that's what u feel

Answer 8

caused mostly by rupture of geological faults, huge amounts of gas migration, mainly methane deep within the earth, but also by volcanic activity, landslides, mine blasts, and nuclear experiments