Reply to ASK-AN-EARTH-SCIENTIST Subject: What causes earthquakes? What causes earthquakes?     The short answer is that earthquakes are caused by faulting, a sudden lateral or ...

Causes of tsunamis ... Causes of tsunamis. Tsunamis are ocean waves produced by earthquakes.

Visit the Earthquake Museum for everything you want to know about Earthquakes. What Causes quakes?

earthquake, trembling or shaking movement of the earth's surface. Most earthquakes are minor tremors. Larger earthquakes usually begin with slight tremors but rapidly take the form ...

Abrupt motion of the Earth's surface. Earthquakes are caused by the sudden release in rocks of strain accumulated over time as a result of plate tectonics.

What Causes Earthquakes?-- Excerpt from: Noson, Qamar, and Thorsen, 1988, Washington State Earthquake Hazards: Washington State Department of Natural Resources, Washington ...

An earthquake is an unpredictable event in which masses of rock shift below Earth's surface, releasing enormous amounts of energy and sending out shock waves that sometimes cause ...

Encyclopedia ? earthquake Causes of Earthquakes. Most earthquakes are causally related to compressional or tensional stresses built up at the margins of the huge moving ...

WHAT CAUSES DAMAGE? taken from "Washington State Earthquake Hazards", by Linda Noson, Anthony Q amar, and Gerald Thorsen

are the shaking, rolling or sudden shock of the earth?s surface. Earthquakes happen along "fault lines" in the earth?s crust.