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You might think of an earthquake when everything starts to shake but there is more to earthquakes then you think. An earthquake is the wobbling of the earth caused by pieces of the crust from the earth that suddenly moves. ... Sometimes the plates are locked together and they are not able to create enough energy that would lead to an earthquake. ... The focus is the underground source of an earthquake. ... Earthquake waves reach the epicenter first. During an earthquake, the most violent shaking is found at the epicenter. ... Although they are the slowest of all the earthquake waves, L waves usually cause more damage than P or S waves.
The magnitude of an earthquake can be viewed in several ways but the Richter scale is the most common. A Richter scale is a measure of the amplitude of the seismic waves in an earthquake.
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