In this article, I will discuss all the types of earthquake. Earthquake can be more or less harmful depend on its intensity.
I have covered all the types of earthquake.
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Different Types of Earthquake
1. Aftershock
This type of earthquake occure after the primary earthquake. The location is same but intensity is low. It can ve very harmful because its location is same as pervious earthquake.
2. Tsunami
Tsunami is a very intensity earthquake. Magnitude of this earthquake is much higher than short period seismic waves. Tsunami occur due to volcanic activity such as injection or removal of magma.
3. Blind Thrust Earthquake
An earthquake that occurs along a thrust that does not leave a mark on the earth’s surface.
4. Frozen Earthquake
A seismic event that can occur as a result of rapid crack formation in frozen ground or rock saturated with water or ice.
5. Deep Earthquake
Deep earthquakes are those earthquakes with focal depths greater than 300 kilometers.
6. Swarms Earthquake
An event in which many earthquakes occur locally in a relatively short period of time.
7. Foreshocks
These types of earthquakes occur before the main seismic event and are related in both time and space.
8. Harmonic Earthquake
Sustained release of seismic and infrasound energy, usually associated with subsurface displacement of magma, release of volcanic gases from magma, or both.
9. Induced Earthquake
They are typically small earthquakes and tremors caused by human activity that alters stresses and strains in the Earth’s crust. Interplate earthquakes, earthquakes that occur at the boundary of two tectonic plates.
10. Mega Earthquake
This type of earthquake occurs in a destructive convergent plate boundary subduction zone where one tectonic plate is pushed under another tectonic plate.
11. Induced Earthquake
This type of earthquake occur due to large earthquake impacts at considerable distances outside the fast aftershock zone.
12. Discrete Earthquake
A discrete earthquake-like event that releases energy over hours to months, rather than the seconds to minutes of a typical earthquake.
13. Undersea Earthquake
It can be defined as an earthquake that occurs underwater at the bottom of a body of water, mainly in the sea.
14. Super Shard Earthquake
An earthquake in which the propagation of a fault along the fault plane occurs at a velocity that exceeds the velocity of the seismic shear wave, producing results similar to a sonic boom.
15. Strike-slip Earthquake
An earthquake in which two tectonic plates that pass each other are tense and slide freely, causing an earthquake.