In this lesson, students learn about the different kinds of faults produced by different kinds of plate motions (see Lesson 2) and their relation to earthquakes. This activity is designed for one ...

As discussed in Lesson 5, earthquakes occur when elastic energy is accumulated slowly within the Earth's crust as a result of plate motions and then released suddenly at fractures in the crust ...

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they are due to the same forces that cause earthquakes along plate boundaries. Faults are defined by the kind of motion that happens where they are. Normal faults show cracks where one block of rock ...

More information: Jiaqi Fang et al, Dynamic Emergence of Plate Motions and Great Megathrust Earthquakes Across Length and Time Scales, Geophysical Research Letters (2024). DOI: 10.1029/2024GL110821 ...

These plates are in constant motion, and their interactions are responsible for a multitude of geological phenomena, including seismic weather patterns such as earthquakes and volcanic activity.

which rises through the surface and cools back down in a circular motion. The convection currents move the plates. Where convection currents diverge near the Earth's crust, plates move apart.