Earthquake: How It Happens? How do we protect ourselves from it?
Earthquake is one of the most dangerous natural disasters in our lives. From now on, billions of earthquakes happened. How earthquake happens? The earth has approximately 20 pieces to create 7 continents. Each of one those pieces are called "Tectonic Plates". The surface where these plates slip is called " Fault Plane" and the earthquake begin. Earthquake happen all the time but, lots of them are weak to reach us. However, some of them are really dangerous for the human race. There are one of the four dangerous earthquakes in history: ◼ The place where the earthquake originates is called "Hypocentre". ◼ The place where it occurs on the Earth's surface is called " Epicentre". There are 3 main types of earthquakes which are: 1- Convergent Boundary: One plate is forced over another during an earthquake. This creates the h...