How are earthquake distribute on the map?
Answers
Answer:
The earthquakes are mainly distributed along the edges of the platonic plates on the map.
Explanation:
The earthquake is the failure of deep rock formations where the strength of rock structures fail due to the tectonic forces. So it is like cracking a cube of ice or rock. Given enough force in a particular direction, the rock fractures. The resulting shock wave, essentially a sound wave, then propagates away from the fracture. A previous fracture may lie dormant for many years, and then fracture again as the thing that stops one fracture is a reduction of displacement, one side against the other, and/or that the force is exerted to another location. This means that earthquakes follow the fault lines as those are the weaknesses in the earth’s crust. We cannot know exactly where the fracture is stopped, nor exactly why.