Why Do Earthquakes Happen?
But Why: A Podcast for Curious Kids
Vermont Public
4.3 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Why do earthquakes happen? How do the tectonic plates move underground? How do we stay safe during an earthquake? Why are continents so far apart? Why do buildings sometimes catch fire after earthquakes? Why are there tsunamis after earthquakes? For this week's show we headed to California to visit Jennifer Strauss at the Berkeley Seismology Lab and we hear from Celeste Labedz at the California Institute of Technology.
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| 0:00.0 | This is But Why, a podcast for curious kids from Vermont Public Radio. |
| 0:26.6 | I'm Jane Linton. |
| 0:28.5 | In this podcast, we take questions from curious kids just like you and we find answers. |
| 0:34.6 | For this week's show, we headed to California to learn more about something you might have |
| 0:38.9 | heard about in the news recently, or maybe even experience to yourself. |
| 0:43.4 | First, you're breaking overnight Southern California braces for more aftershocks, after |
| 0:47.6 | another powerful earthquake rocks the area. |
| 0:51.0 | The magnitude 7.5 earthquake was trouble. |
| 0:54.3 | The lights are swaying. |
| 0:56.9 | I was eating on a shake and I was like, why is it moving? |
| 1:02.9 | We're strong here. |
| 1:04.1 | 821 here on the air. |
| 1:05.5 | We're experiencing very strong shaking. |
| 1:07.6 | I think we need to get under the dust. |
| 1:09.1 | That was some of the news coverage of the Ridge Crest earthquake sequence that shook Southern |
| 1:13.8 | California on July 5th with a 7.1 magnitude earthquake. |
| 1:19.4 | We'll get into what magnitude means in a few minutes. |
| 1:22.9 | For those who felt it, it was really big. |
| 1:25.6 | On some fault lines, the land moved between 3 and 13 feet. |
| 1:30.6 | And there were earthquakes both before and after that people could also feel. |
| 1:36.2 | What are earthquakes? |
| 1:38.1 | Why do they happen? |
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