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How do you relate the energy release during the collision of fault lines during earthquake to the atmospheric variation on the surface of the earth?

Earthquakes occur when energy stored in elastically strained rocks is suddenly released. This release of energy causes intense ground shaking in the area near the source of the earthquake and sends waves of elastic energy, called seismic waves, throughout the Earth. Within the Earth rocks are constantly subjected to forces that tend to bend, twist, or fracture them due to increase in temperature due to climate change. The figure below shows the relation between energy release and atmospheric variation.


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