p6+earthquakes

Earthquakes usually happen on fault lines. The plates converge and part of the plate slides over the other one. This causes an Earthquake. Earthquakes sometimes occur when volcanoes erupt. Basicaly, any sudden movement of Earth causes Earthquakes


 * Most recent earthquakes**

rss url="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/catalogs/7day-M2.5.xml" link="true" number="10" The short answer is that earthquakes are caused by faulting, a sudden lateral or vertical movement of rock and rupture.
 * Time ||  || Magnitude ||   || Location ||
 * 4 hours ago ||  || 5.2 ||   || Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska ||   ||   ||
 * Yesterday ||  || 6.2 ||   || Bougainville region, Papua New Guinea ||   ||   ||
 * 3 days ago ||  || 4.9 ||   || Baja California, Mexico ||   ||   ||

This is the effect of plate movement.