Explain how earthquakes transmit energy?
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Energy is produced when an earthquake occurs. This energy is released in the form of seismic waves. These waves travel throughout the entire Earth. Waves transmit energy between different points. There are many kinds of waves, seismic waves are a type of physical wave. \nhttp://msnucleus.org/membership/html/k-6/pt/earthquakes/3/pte3_1a.html
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Energy can take the form of heat, light, vibration, momentum or sound. It can also be stored as potential energy. Anytime you interconvert among these forms of energy, you can say it is "transferred". Chemical reactions can include some or all of these, with chemical bonds representing stored potential energy.\n\nIn nuclear reactions, you can say that energy and matter are interconverted as well.
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only energy is transferred.  Think about it - if you're in the  ocean and a wave comes by, you bob up and down but aren't swept away.
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Energy can go from place A to place B (think about sound and light)\nEnergy can go from object A to object B (think about a collision)\n\nTh
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The transmission of the various modes of vibration of an earthquake to a building can depend on whether the building is constructed on solid rock or on sand or silt.  Sometimes the excavation for the building and refill can also alter the ground response.  Sand and silt can actually amplify the effects on a building and earthquakes can actually liquify soft ground under certain cirstances especially when very moist.  You may not be able to build a buffer into the ground to protect the building.  Instead it may be necessary to obtain seismologist's estimates of the worst expected earthquake g-loads for the area and a geologist's estimates on how the selected site will react.  With that information a building can be designed to withstand the site response to an earthquake with room to spare (factor of safety).  Good luck.
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a sudden break in the rocks of Earth because of being stressed .. at depths range from the earth surface to 720 km .. this releases kinetic energy which spreads in every direction as seismic waves wich cause the vibration of the molecules of the meduims they move through !!!
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You won't be warned.  The earth will just start moving.  The danger isn't the earthquake.  The dangers are the things that fall on you, the fires that burn after (assuming gas lines or electricity or some source of fire and fuel).
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the tectonic plates that shift happen  underground, if your lucky to see a plate shift at ground level your truly lucky, these plate shifts cause earthquakes so please be careful.
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Energy can not be created or destroyed, it just changes into a different form.  Usually sound waves mechanically vibrate objects, sometimes transferring the energy into kinetic energy, sometimes it is reflected or absorbed and ultimately results in heat, which is a form of mechanical vibration.
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The structural integridy of the plate itself prevents this. When the earth cooled down after its formation the plates were created like large crystals on the molten surface. They can slowly shift around as a result of the magma currents but to have them break would require a large catastrophic event like a meteor or the earth heating up to levels hot enough to lower their integridy. This of course would be a lethal level and would only occur if, for example, the earth got really close to the sun.\n\nThere is the remote chance that an earthquake at just the right fault line might cause just the right fracture that could move through an entire continent but the probability is very remote.
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Define "low", "medium", "high", and "very high".\n\nTransform boundaries are characterized by strike-sllip faults, often of great length (e.g., the San Andreas fault in California, the Alpine Fault in New Zeland, or the North Anatolian Fault in Turkey).  When large segments of such strike-slip fault "unzip", very large earthquakes result.\n\nThe *largest* earthquakes, however, are associated with convergent plate boundaries.  A look at the list of the largest recorded earthquakes (see source), shows that most are caused by slip along faults associated with subduction zones, not transform boundaries.
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beacuse plate tectonics talks about how the plates of the earth move and interact with each other. plate tectonics can explain and help predict how and where earthquakes, volcanos and other geologic phenomena occur.
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is this what your talking about\n\n\nAn earthquake is a phenomenon that results from and is powered by the sudden release of stored energy that radiates seismic waves. At the Earth's surface, earthquakes may manifest themselves by a shaking or displacement of the ground and sometimes tsunamis, which may lead to loss of life and destruction of property.\n\nEarthquakes may occur naturally or as a result of human activities. In its most generic sense, the word earthquake is used to describe any seismic event—whether a natural phenomenon or an event caused by humans—that generates seismic waves\n\nEarth (often referred to as "The Earth") is the third planet in the solar system in terms of distance from the Sun, and the fifth in order of size. It is the largest of its planetary system's terrestrial planets and the only place in the universe currently known to support life. The Earth was formed around 4.57 billion (4.57×109)[1] years ago (see Age of the Earth) and its largest natural satellite, the Moon, was orbiting it shortly thereafter, around 4.533 billion years ago.\n\nSince it formed, the Earth has evolved through geologic and biological processes so that any traces of the original conditions have been virtually eliminated. The outer surface is divided into several tectonic plates that gradually migrate across the surface over geologic time spans. The interior of the planet remains active, with a thick layer of molten mantle and an iron core that generates a magnetic field. The atmospheric conditions have been significantly altered by the presence of life forms, which create an ecological balance that modifies the surface conditions. About 70% of the surface is presently covered in salt water oceans, and the remainder consists of continents and islands.\n\nThere is significant interaction between the Earth and the space environment. The relatively large Moon provides ocean tides and has gradually modified the length of the planet's rotation period. A cometary bombardment during the early history of the planet is believed to have formed the oceans. Later, asteroid impacts are understood to have caused significant changes to the surface environment. Changes in the orbit of the planet may also be responsible for the ice ages that have covered significant portions of the surface in glacial sheets.\n\nThe Earth does not have another natural orbiting body other than the Moon, although Cruithne has been erroneously described as such. Cruithne was discovered in 1986 and follows an elliptical orbit around the Sun at about the same average orbital radius as the Earth. However, from the point of view of the moving Earth, Cruithne follows a horseshoe orbit around the Sun that avoids close proximity with the Earth.
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Ground shaking leads to landslides and other soil movement. These are the main damage-causing events that occur during an earthquake. Primary effects that can accompany an earthquake include property damage, loss of lives, fire, and tsunami waves. Secondary effects, such as economic loss, disease, and lack of food and clean water, also occur after a large earthquake.\n\nEarthquake waves make the ground move, shaking buildings and causing poorly designed or weak structures to partially or totally collapse. The ground shaking weakens soils and foundation materials under structures and causes dramatic changes in fine-grained soils. During an earthquake, water-saturated sandy soil becomes like liquid mud, an effect called liquefaction. Liquefaction causes damage as the foundation soil beneath structures and buildings weakens. Shaking may also dislodge large earth and rock masses, producing dangerous landslides, mudslides, and rock avalanches that may lead to loss of lives or further property damage.
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well city has tons of buildings and the buildings have weight. so they will add more pressure to the tectonic plates and cause them to move faster i guess. There are tectonic plates which meet at one point and they either slip, slide or grind agaisnt each other. and when they slip, this causes the earthquake. so then the more weight on the plates means also more pull. so the plates move faster or something. my guess. but i doubt it has any effect
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It is caused by the movement of large plates on the earth's crust.  When these plates move into each other it causes a collision, which basicallly push them together - hence the reason for all the Mountains out west - 2 plates pushed together caused the ends to go up...hence mountains...but when these plates move you get the shaking, thus causing an earthquake.
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An earthquake is a sudden and sometimes catastrophic movement of a part of the Earth's surface. Earthquakes result from the dynamic release of elastic strain energy that radiates seismic waves. Earthquakes typically result from the movement of faults, planar zones of deformation within the Earth's upper crust. The word earthquake is also widely used to indicate the source region itself. The Earth's lithosphere is a patch work of plates in slow but constant motion (see plate tectonics). Earthquakes occur where the stress resulting from the differential motion of these plates exceeds the strength of the crust. The highest stress (and possible weakest zones) are most often found at the boundaries of the tectonic plates and hence these locations are where the majority of earthquakes occur. Events located at plate boundaries are called interplate earthquakes; the less frequent events that occur in the interior of the lithospheric plates are called intraplate earthquakes (see, for example, New Madrid Seismic Zone). Earthquakes related to plate tectonics are called tectonic earthquakes. Most earthquakes are tectonic, but they also occur in volcanic regions and as the result of a number of anthropogenic sources, such as reservoir induced seismicity, mining and the removal or injection of fluids into the crust. Seismic waves including some strong enough to be felt by humans can also be caused by explosions (chemical or nuclear), landslides, and collapse of old mine shafts, though these sources are not strictly earthquakes.\n\nThere's too much details so just click on the link,\ni hope this helps.