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An earthquake occurs when energy stored inside the earth gets released with great pressure . When this happens, earthquake waves transfer the released energy to the surface of the earth. In the process, physical and chemical changes occur deep within the earth. The tremendous geological forces acting upon the rocks and adjoining plates break the earth’s crust, thereby creating an earthquake with a sudden forceful impact.
Shallow-focus and Deep-focus earthquakes are both “tectonic” earthquakes originating within the earth’s depths at various points. They start from the focii. A focal point is where the geological fault has begun to rupture. The focus of an earthquake however differs from its epicentre, the latter being the point on the ground’s surface directly above the focus.
Beginning at the focus of the earthquake, body waves called seismic waves radiate outwards along the rupturing fault. All of the rock in the path of the wave is compressed and expanded alternately, as the waves travel along the fault at great speeds.
SHALLOW FOCUS earthquakes are commonly occurring “crustal” earthquakes, caused by faults and movements of the continental plates. These are earthquakes with their focus nearer the surface of the earth. Shallow focus earthquakes are usually of large spread, causing greater damage at the surface or the earth’s crust. These occur quite frequently and at random. However, being of smaller magnitudes and at lesser depths, very often they are not even felt. Nevertheless, about 75 % of the world’s energy released from earthquakes is from shallow-focus ones.
DEEP FOCUS earthquakes or “intra plate” earthquakes, occur within the sub-ducting oceanic plates as they move beneath the continental plates. Appearing along fault lines, these are earthquakes with focus much deeper within the earth. A deep focus earthquake occurs when two tectonic plates slide towards one another followed by subduction, or when the mineral olivine is in a transitional phase.These are typical of the subduction zone of the earth which are seismically active zones, often existing in patterns as in Wadati-Benioff zones. They happen as huge quakes with larger magnitudes, as a great deal of energy is released with the forceful collision of the plates.
The mechanics of these earthquakes have puzzled geophysicists, as brittle fracture and frictional sliding at depths exceeding 100-200 km would require great rock strengths which does not seem possible because of the high temperatures in such zones. They are believed to be associated with a catastrophic phase change as large portions of slab or slab-entrained material convert from spinal structure to a more compact perovskite structure.
Thus the difference between the two type of earthquakes lies in the depths where the focus point of the earthquake originates and the associated dynamics.
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