It's commonly assumed that earthquakes occur only near the boundaries of tectonic plates, and roughly 90% of earthquakes do happen in these areas. These boundaries include, for example ...

Earthquakes happen every day all over the world, along both tectonic plate edges and interiors. Earthquakes occur along faults, which are fractures between blocks of rock that allow the blocks to move ...

Soon a little bit of foam rubber along the crack (the fault) will break and the two pieces will suddenly slip past each other. That sudden breaking of the foam rubber is the earthquake. That's what ...

To learn why, where, and how earthquakes happen, you need to familiarize your students with the interior of the Earth and a model called plate tectonics. The engine behind the earthquake machine ...

Although, don't worry. Most are minor. The Earth's surface is made up of a number of plates that are almost always moving. Most earthquakes happen where these plates meet. Some of these plates ...

You might have learned that earthquakes are caused by the sudden movement of big, underground sheets of rock, called tectonic plates. Your teacher might have said they occur where two tectonic ...

It's ground motion early warning," said Dr Minson. Earthquakes occur along tectonic plate boundaries and faults in the Earth's crust - long fractures where friction has built up over time.

This is when an earthquake could occur. These areas are known as destructive plate boundaries. An example is the Andes Mountains in South America, where the ocean plate is being forced underneath ...

Most earthquakes happen at the boundaries between the Earth's tectonic plates, where there is the largest amount of stress. The UK is located in the middle of the Eurasian tectonic plate ...