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Under 10% of an earthquake’s energy makes the ground shake
Earthquakes are driven by energy stored up in rocks over millennia-energy that, once released, we perceive mainly in the form of the ground's shaking. But a quake also generates a flash of heat and fractures and damages underground rocks. And exactly how much energy goes into each of these three processes is exceedingly difficult to...
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