“How do earthquakes happen” is a common question. How can the earth shake randomly for no reason? The answer leads to plate tectonics. There are small and big plates that are underneath our ground that move. There are many different types of plates such as divergent, convergent and transform plates. The earthquake happens when two plates slip past each other. The surface where they slip is called the fault plane. After the earthquake, if it is a major one, there are aftershocks. The aftershocks are like “mini earthquakes” that happen after the earthquake. They don’t cause buildings to fall down, but it’s like a vibration in the floor. But what causes the earthquakes? When two plates get stuck together and the others keep moving, it causes
