The page that I have created is dedicated to earthquakes. In this site I have included various topics of predictions right down the list to the Damage and the effects that the natural disaster can do to us. A earthquake is caused by a sudden slip on a fault. Stresses in the earth's outer layer push the sides of the faults together. This causes a rumbling in the ground, which is what makes a earthquake so threatening to us.
Earthquakes occur on faults.
A fault is a thin zone of crushed rock between two blocks of rock and can be of any length from centimeters to kilometers. Strike Slip and Dip Slip. Magnitude is the number that rates a earthquake on the richter scale. The higher the number the higher the magnitude.