Istanbul Gelisim Vocational School: Vocational School Bulletin (Vol. 2, Issue 6, June 2022)

EARTHQUAKE TRUTH What is an Earthquake and How Does It Occur? Earthquake, also known as seismic movement, ground shaking, is defined as a shaking movement that occurs unexpectedly with fractures in the earth's crust as a result of tectonic events. Plates moving as a result of tectonic events move away from each other, converge or move relatively along their boundaries. As a result of this movement, stresses occur at the plate boundaries and with this stress, elastic deformation occurs in the plates.