What are areas along a fault where relatively few earthquakes have occurred?
At spreading ridges, or similar extensional boundaries, earthquakes are shallow, aligned strictly along the axis of spreading and are rarer. Thanks for using ChaCha!
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Vibrations produced by earthquakes are detected, recorded, an...
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What type of plate boundaries do earthquakes take place and volcanoes exist?
Earthquakes and volcanoes occur along the edges of the plates...
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What is a scale used to measure the magnitude of earthquakes?
The magnitude of most earthquakes is measured on the Richter ...
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An earthquake's focus is the point at which strain energy is ...
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How do plate boundary movements form earthquakes?
The movements of two plates as the boundaries shift cause fic...
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An earthquake is the shaking of the ground caused by an abrup...
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What is a scale used to measure the magnitude of earthquakes?
The magnitude of most earthquakes is measured on the Richter ...
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Earthquakes are usually caused when rock underground suddenly...
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What Is the relationship between plate boundaries and earthquakes?
Where plate pull apart, slide by each other or collide, there...
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What natural disasters are caused by earthquakes?
Earthquakes can cause other disasters including tsunamis and ...
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How do plate boundary movements form earthquakes?
The movements of two plates as the boundaries shift cause fic...
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An earthquake's focus is the point at which strain energy is ...
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Was there an earthquake in hesperia, ca?
There wasn't any earthquakes in Hesperia, California but ther...
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What scale used to rate earthquakes is based on the amount of total energy released?
Richter and Mercalli Earthquake Scale is based on the amount ...
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How many earthquakes have occurred in California today?
There have been at least 3 earthquakes in California today. A...
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What are the top 3 deadliest earthquakes in China?
Centered in China's central Shaanxi province, the 1556 quake ...
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How many earthquakes have there been in the last week?
# There are about 8,000 earthquakes a day. That's one every 1...
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Where do the most earthquakes happen?
The most earthquakes happen along the Pacific Ring (or Rim) o...
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Most earthquakes occur along the edge of the oceanic and cont...
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What is a scientist who studies earthquakes called?
Seismologists are scientists who study earthquakes. Try 1-800...
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What boundaries do most earthquakes occur?
Most earthquakes occur along the edge of the oceanic and cont...
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What causes dense earthquakes?
Most dense earthquakes are caused by tectonic activity associ...
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An earthquake is caused by the cracking and shifting of the p...
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Where do the most earthquakes happen?
The most earthquakes happen along the Pacific Ring (or Rim) o...
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Earthquakes are usually caused when rock underground suddenly...
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How many earthquakes have there been in the last week?
# There are about 8,000 earthquakes a day. That's one every 1...
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What is a scientist who studies earthquakes called?
Seismologists are scientists who study earthquakes. Try 1-800...
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How many earthquakes have there been in 2012?
The total amount of earthquakes for this year is unspecified....
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What do you use to measure earthquakes?
There are two ways in which scientists quantify the size of e...
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How many earthquakes happen each year at Yellowstone National Park?
Thousands of small earthquakes rattle the Yellowstone Nationa...
About Earthquakes
Earthquakes are seismic events which rattle the earth. Tectonic plates which press and grind in the Earth's crust release incredible amounts of energy, causing earthquakes. Pictures often show devastating results, depending on the quality of housing prevalent in the earthquake area.
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