![]() ![]() They can break or shift suddenly sending out shock waves - an earthquake - which are actually incredibly common: 500,000 happen worldwide every year and around 10,000 of those occur right here in Southern California. And where those plates butt up against each other is called a fault.Įarthquakes mainly happen along breaks in the Earth’s crust because the plates ride up against each other on that sea of hot rock. Now the Earth's shell is cracked in places that resemble plates, which is what they are, tectonic plates, specifically. The Earth’s crust or shell or lithosphere floats atop of the Earth’s molten rock, a kind of hot sea with a convectional current. California is a great place to live but it does have its FAULTS and in this Virtually Rick we take a closer look at one of them, the strike-slip fault.
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