Types Of Earthquake

This is a list of different types of earthquake.

A

* Aftershock, a smaller earthquake that occurs ''after'' a previous large earthquake, in the same area of the main shock

B

* Blind thrust earthquake, an earthquake which occurs along a thrust fault that does not show signs on the Earth's surface.

C

* Cryoseism, a seismic event that may be caused by a sudden cracking action in frozen soil or rock saturated with water or ice

D

* Deep-focus earthquake, also called a plutonic earthquake, an earthquake with a hypocenter depth exceeding
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E

* Earthquake swarm, events where a local area experiences sequences of many earthquakes striking in a relatively short period of time

F

* Foreshock, an earthquake that occurs ''before'' a larger seismic event (the mainshock) and is related to it in both time and space

H

* Harmonic tremor, a sustained release of seismic and infrasonic energy typically associated with the underground movement of magma, the venting of volcanic gases from magma, or both

I

* Induced seismicity, typically minor earthquakes and tremors that are caused by human activity that alters the stresses and strains on the Earth's crust
* Interplate earthquake, an earthquake that occurs ''at the boundary'' between two tectonic plates
* Intraplate earthquake, an earthquake that occurs ''within the interior'' of a tectonic plate

M

* Megathrust earthquake, an earthquake occurring at subduction zones at destructive convergent plate boundaries, where one tectonic plate is forced underneath another

R

* Remotely triggered earthquakes, a result of the effects of large earthquakes at considerable distance, outside of the immediate aftershock zones

S

* Slow earthquake, a discontinuous, earthquake-like event that releases energy over a period of hours to months, rather than the seconds to minutes characteristic of a typical earthquake
* Submarine earthquake, an earthquake that occurs underwater at the bottom of a body of water, especially an ocean
* Supershear earthquake, an earthquake in which the propagation of the rupture along the fault surface occurs at speeds in excess of the seismic shear wave (S-wave) velocity, causing an effect analogous to a sonic boom
* Strike-slip earthquake, an earthquake where two tectonic plates sliding past each other get caught, build tension, then slide free, creating an earthquake.

T

* Tsunami earthquake, an earthquake that triggers a tsunami of a magnitude that is very much larger than the magnitude of the earthquake as measured by shorter-period seismic waves

V

* Volcano tectonic earthquake, an earthquake induced by the movement (injection or withdrawal) of magma

External links

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Seismology
Lists of earthquakes

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