I am Syrian and we are still feeling earth shakes since the big earthquake.
The building we are in is fine since we were not close to the earthquake but glass was broken and it was very intense.
My question is, scientifically how bad it could get ? Could there be a more server one ?
Thanks in advance.
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An earthquake is sudden movement between techtocic plates that became locked due to friction. Over time, tension builds as magma flows under Earth’s crust trying to force plate movement. Eventually tension becomes more than rock within the plate can sustain so it breaks, releasing this tension suddenly and violently. The sudden plate movement causes other sections to engage with each other, locking plate movement again.
As tension builds, newly locked sections collapse too, causing more earthquakes. Eventually, stronger sections of rock engage and extend the duration between collapses. These become the siesmically dormant periods we enjoy between earthquakes.
An earthquake’s magnitude depends on the amount of tension that builds up in the fault beteeen plates, and how quickly this energy is released.
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