Types of earthquake
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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 300 kilometres (190 mi)
- Doublet earthquake – Multiple earthquakes with nearly identical waveforms originating from the same location
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
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