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they can be a 5.1 earthquakes which can be triggered by the plates in the earth and move really slowly and once they get caught the pressure with build up and make a crack in the earth and that can travel or days weeks even for the after shocks

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A fault line is a fracture along which the crust has moved. Stresses in the crust along New Zealand's plate boundary have broken it into separate fragments or blocks that move relative to each other along fault lines.

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convergent is when one plate is forced by the other, during movement creating a thrust fault

divergent are when plates are forced apart each other usually forming a rift zone. This kind is common in ocean floors where new floors are created. An example is the Mid Atlantic Ridge.

transform the plates slip by each other this is also called strike-slip.

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There are two ways in which scientists quantify the size of earthquakes: magnitude and intensity.

The magnitude of an earthquake is a measure of the total amount of energy released by the ground movement at its source. It is commonly determined by analyzing the shaking recorded on several seismographs.

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Earthquakes occur when the ground is subjected to so much force that it fractures or breaks. Scientists can explain how most earthquakes are caused using simplified theories of the Earth's structure.