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What directly causes earthquakes?Help quick!!
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What directly causes earthquakes?Help quick!!

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When the tectonic plates bump or crash into each other.
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what causes earthquakes is when tectonic plates push,pull,or scrape against each other ,stress builds along faults near the plates' edges
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