The West: Components and Causes of an Earthquake (3:43)- vtap mobile videos

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It may seem as if we're all on solid ground, but that ground is in constant motion, experiencing more than a million earthquakes a year. Earth's crust floats on tectonic plates that shift and collide,...

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Our Restless Planet: Fault Lines and Earthquakes (3:38)

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The Earth's crust has cracks, known as faults, where earthquakes originate. At a fault line, each side tries to move but doesn't until there is enough stress built up. As earthquakes occur at plate ...

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Seismology turns to high tech

NASA works with the U.S. Geological Survey to track and understand the Earth's restless crust. This video from NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory traces the progress of seismology since the 1906 ...

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3 years ago

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Forecasting Aftershocks-U.S.G.S., Caltech Seismologists Develop Online Tool to Predict Aftershocks

...earthquake ...plate ...below each other. But if the motion isn't smooth, strain builds up until the "fault" ruptures, slipping to new position to relieve the strain. An earthquake is the resulting ...

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American Institute of Physics

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CHINA EARTHQUAKE SICHUAN TECTONIC PLATES

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...sm. This animation shows the tectonic plates in the region : India plate, Eurasian plate, North China plate, South China plate. This 3D video is available for purchase at : http://www.stockaninews....

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