• Question: How does an earthquake start?

    Asked by anon-192243 on 14 Nov 2018.
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      anon answered on 14 Nov 2018:

      An earthquake is caused by movements below ground, some small, some large, some deep and some shallow.

      This movement causes a shock, the shock propagates out as waves, where they reach the surface it like a loose end waving around. This energy release is what we call an earthquake.

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