When an earthquake strikes the ground begins to shake ferociously because the rocks under the earths surface shift and tear.
The earth is covered by a layer of rock, that’s called the crust. The crust forms the land and the ocean floor. The crust is divided up into pieces called the plates and the plates only move one or two centimes a year.
An earthquake is caused by the plates pushing and grinding against each other with great force and when the pressure is released, the land above shakes causing an earthquake.
Earthquakes are most likely to happen in some parts of the world more then others. Earthquakes mostly happen on the fault line which is the cracks in the crust where the plates move against each other. Most of the faults are under oceans and seas. But some of them can be seen on land.
Earthquakes happen all the time, some are big and damage cities and towns but earthquakes are not all big and deadly.
By Gendi
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Under Water Hockey
On the 2nd of July, 24 damn awesome students from Taupo Syndicate competed in the Wellington Under Water Hockey mini league. We were placed in two teams - Plimmerton Stingrays and Plimmerton Marlins. Everyone played so well resulting in the Plimmerton Stingrays smashing (kinda) Marsden in the finals and got GOLD!!!! (first place) The Plimmerton Marlins also played well and got 9th equal. It was an awesome night, everyone had so much fun and we were all exhausted afterwards!!!
By Jessie and Emmie
Friday, June 24, 2011
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