Lecture demonstration for middle-school teachers. Uses wooden yard stick to discuss the brittle and elastic nature of tectonic plates. Stress builds up in the earth and when overcome plates shift past each other creating earthquakes.
More seismology and earthquake animation at: http://www.iris.edu/hq/programs/education_and_outreach/aotm
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