Earthquakes happen when the tectonic plates move around. Tectonic plates are what the earths land is made of, huge pieces of shifting rock. These plates can move in any direction, into each other, pulled away from each other, or scraping each other. This causes the earthquake. Earthquake are recorded on the Richter scale, a scale developed to measure the force of an earthquake. The Richter scale works by 1 on the Richter scale is 1 force, and 2 is 10, and 3 is 100 etc. To find out the force of the earthquake and the epicenter of it, scientists have invented the Seismograph, which is placed all around the world sending data to a database so that scientists can figure out who the earthquake is going to effect, so these seismographs have to work 24/7. The reason the Tectonic plats move around is because under these massive plates is molten lava. So its like putting a bit of water between 2 pieces of ice, the water makes the ice move around at the smallest touch.
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