
Overview
Earthquakes happen when pieces of land in the Earth’s crust scrape together. The crust of the Earth is made of big slabs of land called plates that are constantly moving just a little bit. The plates scrape by one another, and sometimes they don’t move smoothly. An earthquake happens when the plates get unstuck suddenly and jerkily slip past each other. The majority of earthquakes occur along plate boundaries such as the boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American plate. One of the most active plate boundaries for earthquakes is the massive Pacific Plate commonly referred to as the Pacific Ring of Fire. The fire comes from the volcanoes that form near the edge of the plates.
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4 - 1Rivers & Streams November 03, 1995
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4 - 2Nutrition November 10, 1995
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4 - 3Marine Mammals November 17, 1995
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4 - 4Earthquakes November 24, 1995
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4 - 5NTV Top 11 Video Countdown December 01, 1995
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4 - 6Spiders January 05, 1996
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4 - 7Pollution Solutions January 12, 1996
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4 - 8Probability January 19, 1996
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4 - 9Pseudoscience January 26, 1996
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4 - 10Flowers January 27, 1996
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4 - 11Archaeology January 28, 1996
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4 - 12Deserts January 29, 1996
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4 - 13Amphibians January 30, 1996
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4 - 14Volcanoes January 31, 1996
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4 - 15Invertebrates February 07, 1996
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4 - 16Heart February 14, 1996
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4 - 17Inventions February 21, 1996
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4 - 18Computers April 25, 1996
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4 - 19Fossils September 05, 1997
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4 - 20Time September 12, 1997