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A 4 page overview of earthquakes. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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what causes them and what, if any, are the benefits of earthquakes. People know full well that earthquakes are potentially very damaging to property and life. The following paper examines
how and why earthquakes take place and what the affects of earthquakes are on life on the planet. Earthquakes According to
one author it is plate tectonics that essentially cause earthquakes. "The plates consist of an outer layer of the Earth, the lithosphere, which is cool enough to behave as a
more or less rigid shell. Occasionally the hot asthenosphere of the Earth finds a weak place in the lithosphere to rise buoyantly as a plume, or hotspot" (Louie, 2001). Another
author indicates that the surface of the planet is continuously moving n slow motion and that this is what is called plate tectonics (Fryer, 2009). It is "the motion of
immense rigid plates at the surface of the Earth in response to flow of rock within the Earth" (Fryer, 2009). These plates
are actually covering the surface of the earth and because they are constantly moving they sometimes rub against one another in the places where it seems that they meet, such
as the San Andreas Fault in California (Fryer, 2009). In some places, however, they move beneath one another and still yet there are places wherein they move away from each
other (Fryer, 2009). As the different sorts of movements take place there are times when a level of stress is achieved wherein the rock will break and then the two
sides will move: "An earthquake is the shaking that radiates out from the breaking rock" (Fryer, 2009). Still yet, another author describes an
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