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  2. What causes earthquakes? The science behind why seismic ... - AOL

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    Earthquakes are common on the West Coast, with multiple plate boundaries like the San Andreas fault making geologic activity more likely. They are rarer on the East Coast, but they do happen .

  3. Quake (natural phenomenon) - Wikipedia

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    An earthquake is a phenomenon that results from the sudden release of stored energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves. At the Earth's surface, earthquakes may manifest themselves by a shaking or displacement of the ground and sometimes cause tsunamis, which may lead to loss of life and destruction of property. An earthquake is ...

  4. Earthquake - Wikipedia

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    The topmost, brittle part of the Earth's crust, and the cool slabs of the tectonic plates that are descending into the hot mantle, are the only parts of our planet that can store elastic energy and release it in fault ruptures. Rocks hotter than about 300 °C (572 °F) flow in response to stress; they do not rupture in earthquakes.

  5. Seismic communication - Wikipedia

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    Seismic or vibrational communication is a process of conveying information through mechanical vibrations of the substrate. The substrate may be the earth, a plant stem or leaf, the surface of a body of water, a spider's web, a honeycomb, or any of the myriad types of soil substrates.

  6. Why do earthquakes happen? - AOL

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    Movement of tectonic plates against each other sends seismic waves rippling across earth’s surface

  7. Seismology - Wikipedia

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    Seismology (/ s aɪ z ˈ m ɒ l ə dʒ i, s aɪ s-/; from Ancient Greek σεισμός (seismós) meaning "earthquake" and -λογία (-logía) meaning "study of") is the scientific study of earthquakes (or generally, quakes) and the generation and propagation of elastic waves through planetary bodies.

  8. Fact checks: Can animals predict earthquakes? Will ... - AOL

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  9. Earth science - Wikipedia

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    [8] [10] [11] Earthquakes result from the movement of the lithospheric plates, and they often occur near convergent boundaries where parts of the crust are forced into the earth as part of subduction. [12] Plate tectonics might be thought of as the process by which the Earth is resurfaced.