Like a rapture, people running halter shelter, land vibrating, houses are sinking in between the earth crust, great disaster and havoc to befall mankind and livestock hustling to survive and underground to hide and stay alive. According to Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary which says that earthquake is a sudden violent movement of the earth's surface.
However, earthquake is what happen when two blocks of earth suddenly slip past each other the surface were they slip is called fault plane and the location below the earth's surface where the earthquake started is called hypo-center and the location directly above the earth surface is called epicenter.
Geographers opted out the cause of an earthquake in a sequencial aspecct. An earthquake is caused by a sudden slip on a fualt. the tectinic plates are always slowly moving, but they get stuck at their edges due to friction.
That is when the stress on the edge overcomes the friction, there is an earthquake that release energy in waves that travel through the earth's crust and cause the vibration that we feel during earthquake.
also volcanic eruption, rockfalls, landslides, bomb explosion and erosion can cause earthquake but these are under local extent.
Even shock waves and land shacking can cause a small quake in a near by town or city.
Moreover scientist can not predict earthquake but they believe that it will still happen again in the future
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