Earthquakes | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-15

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00:01:47 1 Naturally occurring earthquakes
00:03:54 1.1 Earthquake fault types
00:10:23 1.2 Earthquakes away from plate boundaries
00:12:11 1.3 Shallow-focus and deep-focus earthquakes
00:13:43 1.4 Earthquakes and volcanic activity
00:14:34 1.5 Rupture dynamics
00:17:35 1.6 Tidal forces
00:17:52 1.7 Earthquake clusters
00:18:22 1.7.1 Aftershocks
00:19:05 1.7.2 Earthquake swarms
00:20:42 2 Intensity of earth quaking and magnitude of earthquakes
00:22:37 3 Frequency of occurrence
00:26:36 4 Induced seismicity
00:28:11 5 Measuring and locating earthquakes
00:33:18 6 Effects of earthquakes
00:33:35 6.1 Shaking and ground rupture
00:35:25 6.2 Landslides
00:35:49 6.3 Fires
00:36:24 6.4 Soil liquefaction
00:37:11 6.5 Tsunami
00:38:40 6.6 Floods
00:39:21 6.7 Human impacts
00:39:59 7 Major earthquakes
00:42:14 8 Prediction
00:42:56 9 Forecasting
00:43:59 10 Preparedness
00:45:14 11 Historical views
00:46:26 12 Recent studies
00:47:00 13 In culture
00:47:10 13.1 Mythology and religion
00:48:38 13.2 In popular culture
00:51:53 14 See also



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An earthquake (also known as a quake, tremor or temblor) is the shaking of the surface of the Earth, resulting from the sudden release of energy in the Earth's lithosphere that creates seismic waves. Earthquakes can range in size from those that are so weak that they cannot be felt to those violent enough to toss people around and destroy whole cities. The seismicity, or seismic activity, of an area is the frequency, type and size of earthquakes experienced over a period of time. The word tremor is also used for non-earthquake seismic rumbling.
At the Earth's surface, earthquakes manifest themselves by shaking and displacing or disrupting the ground. When the epicenter of a large earthquake is located offshore, the seabed may be displaced sufficiently to cause a tsunami. Earthquakes can also trigger landslides, and occasionally volcanic activity.
In its most general sense, the word earthquake is used to describe any seismic event—whether natural or caused by humans—that generates seismic waves. Earthquakes are caused mostly by rupture of geological faults, but also by other events such as volcanic activity, landslides, mine blasts, and nuclear tests. An earthquake's point of initial rupture is called its focus or hypocenter. The epicenter is the point at ground level directly above the hypocenter.