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What is Earth's compression?

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Compression is a stress state that acts to decrease the size / volume of an object. As such any force resulting in pressure or stress that acts to "squash" the crust is compression.

This commonly occurs at convergent plate boundaries were one tectonic plate is colliding with another.

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Compression acts to decrease the volume of a material. The Earth's crust is an elastic brittle solid. So initially a compressive stress will cause a recoverable reduction in volume of the crust (this is known as elastic strain). It the stress continues to increase, there will be a small degree of plastic (unrecoverable) deformation until the strength of the crust is exceeded. At this point either a fracture will form creating a new fault or as the earth's crust is already significantly fractured and faulted, it is more likely that movement will occur along a pre-existing fault.

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I would suggest that you research on "seismic compression and earthquakes".

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It Is When The Earthquake Make The Ground Push Against Each Other

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Earths compression is when the Earth's plates push together which breaks the Earth's rocks.

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