The Science Behind Earthquakes
Earthquakes happen when stress building up along a fault finally exceeds friction, and the rock snaps to a new position — releasing stored elastic energy as seismic waves.
How the physical world works: earthquakes, atoms, weather, energy and the human body, explained without jargon.
Earthquakes happen when stress building up along a fault finally exceeds friction, and the rock snaps to a new position — releasing stored elastic energy as seismic waves.