The Importance Of Earthquakes

What are earthquakes, how do they function or why do they occur, many of us would like to know if they are able to be predicted, and if they aren’t most of us know how to be prepared for an earthquake. To better understand an earthquake we must know what faults are. Seismic waves are important to determine an earthquake and the energy that is released and where does the energy to create an earthquake come from. There has been many catastrophic earthquakes that have taken many lives, and it’s possible that in the future there could be more. Earthquakes are common in California, and many of us know what they can do. The thing we don’t know about earthquakes is how they function or why they happen. Earthquakes are scary because we don’t know when they can happen, but at least we can protect …show more content…
“Earthquakes are created most commonly at the three types of boundaries of lithospheric plates, which are known as convergent or destructive, divergent or constructive, and Trans current or transform” (Wald). Most of the earthquakes around the world occur on these faults many of us have heard of///CONTINUITY/// some an example would be the San Andreas Faults.///SINGULAR/// “Most seismologists agree that the energy necessary to produce a major earthquake is accumulated slowly relative to the time it takes for a rupture to occur” (Mattioli). On the faults///AWK/// since the edges of the plates are rough, they get stuck while the rest of the plate keeps moving and what happens///OMIT/// when the plates have moved far enough, the edges eventually get unstuck on one of the faults and that is when an earthquake occurs. “The energy radiates outward from the fault in all directions in the form of seismic waves like ripples on a pond” (Wald). When this happens basically it is like water, the