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What geologic structures are associated with earthquakes

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Seismic waves are produced when suddenly released some sort of energy stored in Earth's crust, usually when suddenly fracture and "slip" masses of rock straining against each other. Earthquakes occur most frequently along geological faults, narrow zones where rock masses shift in relation to each other.

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