How do earthquakes happen?

An earthquake 

is an earthquake that occurs on the ground and often causes a variety of damages that claim many lives and a variety of material losses such as loss of buildings, destruction of infrastructure, and sometimes destruction of cities.  A tremor occurs in the earth as a result of all destruction and the release of energy from the earth. This energy is in the form of seismic waves, vibrations that pass through rock. Each seismic wave has a specific speed and wavelength, some can penetrate liquid and solid media, and some can only penetrate solid media. 

Why Earthquakes Occur 

Earthquakes occur as a result of the formation of the Earth. This is because the Earth or crust consists of many floating plates in so-called magma oceans, and these different plates are located in regions called plate boundaries. In regions also called rifts, as a result of plate movement over magma, energy is stored in the plate, especially in the rift region, in the form of elastic energy, and this energy exceeds the carrying capacity of the plate. rock.  , because this energy is released in the form of vibrational waves that can be viewed as a kind of kinetic energy, this energy is transmitted in all directions through rocks, forming what is known as an earthquake. 

Locations of earthquakes

Where Earthquakes Occur Various earthquakes since the earth's birth have created areas of constant release of seismic energy, forming the most seismically active areas called belts, such as the Pacific belt.  The zones differ from each other in the intensity and amount of earthquakes produced in the zones and in the nature of the stresses and pressures produced in the zones. Earthquakes also occur within plates rather than at plate boundaries, although far fewer earthquakes occur than at plate boundaries, but only when stress builds up in these areas.  

Types of earthquakes 

Different types of earthquakes have different causes and types of stress. Most common type. The heat in the ground explodes the seismic energy stored in the plates. Another type is collapsing earthquakes that occur as a result of landslides. earthquake. Destructive human activities such as testing, nuclear explosions, dam collapses, and oil pumping operations from the ground.