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two or more tectonic plates move towards each other and collide. Causing earthquakes.

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California is typically verified as an active earthquake zone in the U.S today.

California posses allot of fault lines within it's regions, about an estimated

amount of 200 fault lines are recognized to be highly hazardous. California

also has an astonishing magnitude rate average of about 6.5 - 8 per earth

quake occurrence. However, the area I wish to inhabit in California is San Francisco , where a recent major earthquake struck, possessing a strong magnitude of .6. Of course, by thriving in a place like California you will be able to feel the earthquakes mainly due to the high magnitude rates.

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CAUGHT ON TAPE: 6.0 Magnitude Earthquake

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Video recorded by Camille Alysson Freking in Hercules on August 24th, 2014. Official Site: http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/ Subscribe on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/CBSSanFrancisco Like us on FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/CBSSanFrancisco Follow us on Twitter: @cbssf

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line of breakage within the ground such as a fracture that initially developes from the sudden movement of earth's tetonic plates.

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direct, and central focused region on earth's surface were an earthquake is bound to occur.

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Sumatra, Indonesia, Dec. 26, 2004 - The damage rate extended up to 270 miles north east from the initial epicenter, ( first occured in Senshi aka-Shaanxi province). Total damage disrupted house hold foundations and pipelines. Magnitude 9.1, 227,898 deaths.

Haiti, Jan 12, 2010- ( one of the most recognized earthquakes in modern century and remembered to be one of the most devastating..) estimated, 222,570 people killed. 300,000 were injured, 1.3 recorded missing or determined misplaced and 97,294 houses destroyed with in the area.

Tangshan, China, July 27, 1976- determined death rate as high as 655,000. Second most listed deadly earthquakes, the overall destruction of the earthquake even extended into Beijing.

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P - waves: seismic wave that moves rock particles back-and-forth in the same direction that the wave travels. Also, the same type of wave that arrive upon the seismograph.

S - waves: wave generated by an earthquake and capable of moving through the body of an object.

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two tetonic plates move away from each other.

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Plates slide past each other.

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Sudden trembling/ violent shaking of

earth's surface due to movement of

plates and rock masses, ( either tetonic

or volcanic).