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What Happens to the Earth’s Crust During an Earthquake?  

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Earthquakes occur on fault lines.
What Happens to the Earth’s Crust During an Earthquake?  
Earthquakes occur on fault lines. A fault is a fracture on the Earth’s crust where rocks on either side of the crack have slid past each other. The fault surface could be vertical, horizontal or at some angle to the surface of the Earth. When an earthquake occurs on one of these faults, the rocks
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