What can be the cause of the earthquake in China?

Question

i'm just curious. tell me the answers

Answer 1

"Today's earthquake appears to have been due to thrusting on a NE-SW fault," Dr. Brian Baptie at British Geological Survey (BGS) told Xinhua in an telephone interview.

    The epicenter was in the mountains of the Eastern Margin of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the tectonics are related to the India-Tibet collision and subsequent extrusion, the BGS Seismic Monitoring and Information Service Project leader explained.

Answer 2

Plate tectonics. The earth's plates shift and grind against each other causing earthquakes.

Answer 3

Earthquakes happen because the outer layer of the earth

(the crust) is slowly being deformed by stresses that

are placed on the crust.  These stresses build up along

locked portions of the crust where earthquake faults are.

Eventually the stresses become too great for one of the faults

to withstand, and the crust suddenly moves, like a spring

that has been wound too tightly.  This sudden movement of

the ground is called an earthquake.



Most of the stresses that cause earthquakes can be

explained by the theory of plate tectonics.  According

to this theory, the crust of the earth is broken up into

many tectonic plates--something like a cracked egg shell.

Unlike an egg shell, however, the earth's plates are not

fixed in one location, but raft above a partially molten layer

of the earth which is about 60 miles deep.  Where the

edges of the plates meet, stresses build up, and

earthquakes occur.

Answer 4

if you wanna know just listen to me or Yuri because we got the answers see when the tech-tonic plates connect the ground shifts and the earths surface shakes and everything and occasionally there will be things called aftershocks which can be more dangerous than the actual earthquake