I feel the Earth move!

• Earthquakes are sudden movements of the Earth's crust caused by the release of stress accumulated along geologic faults or by volcanic activity.

Most earthquakes occur near fault lines or plate boundaries.

The reason for this is because, faults are fracture's in Earth's surface, and at these fractures they experience immense pressure and elastic energy.

At the faults the energy is released all at once creating waves of vibration in all directions from the focus of the earthquake.

At plate boundaries, the plates move and cause severe vibrations. Less than ten percent of earthquakes occur at plate boundaries.

In Charleston, South Carolina at the seismic zone, the closest earthquakes commonly occur near North Carolina.

September 5, 2008 North of Ascension Island an earthquake occurred. It had a magnitude of 5.8. It's location was 1.149*S, 13.880*W. It's depth was 10 kilometers (6.2) set by the program. The parameters were NST= 81, Nph= 81, Dmin=>999 km, Rmss=1.07 sec, Gp= 43°, M-type=regional moment magnitude (Mw), Version=7. The source was USGS NEIC (WDCS-D).

With all due accord,
Aaron