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Deep underground, Earth's rocky crust is cracked into giant pieces that slowly slide and bump against each other.
We call this ground-shaking event an earthquake. Deep underground, Earth's rocky crust is cracked into giant pieces called plates, and when these plates suddenly slide or bump against each other, the shock ripples up to the surface, where we feel the ground tremble.
A rainbow forms when sunlight bends through raindrops, and a rainstorm is simply falling water from clouds; neither has anything to do with rock plates shifting underground.
Many earthquakes happen along a loop of plate boundaries around the Pacific Ocean often called the Ring of Fire, where a large share of the world's earthquakes occur.
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