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The movement of earth's crust along a fault is called a transform fault. At a transform fault, the plates slide past each other and crust is neither destroyed nor created. If there geological structures don't "slip" easily, energy can build up as the plates try to slide past each other. Eventually the "stuck" parts of the fault will fail and the energy stored there will be released quickly in a seismic event. An earthquake can result.

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Tension is released in the form of an earthquake.

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it causes an earthquake because it pushes along the edge of 2 tectonic plates and causes the eatthquake.

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Huge rocks rise or fall.

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