Earth Quakes

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