About 55 earthquakes a day – 20,000 a year – are recorded by the National Earthquake Information Center. Most are tiny and barely noticed by people living where they happen. But some are ...

“Earthquakes happen when we have plates that are moving past each other, these tectonic plates in the Earth they make up the crust of the Earth and they’re moving past each other. They build ...

The Earth's surface is made up of a number of plates that are almost always moving. Most earthquakes happen where these plates meet. Some of these plates slide past each other, causing friction to ...