Professional Documents
Culture Documents
CAUSES OF AN EARTHQUAKE
According to its occurrence in a natural way, everything develops
when the surface on which the plates slide, they overlap or collide
and this is known as fault or fault plane. On the other hand, the
location from which the fault originates is the so-called hypocenter
and the one that is exactly above it, is the epicenter. On the
surface, we perceive the earthquake as a jolt that, after the
collision of the plates, releases energy (seismic waves) in the course
of a sudden reorganization of materials of the earth's crust, when it
overcomes the state of mechanical equilibrium.