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Category: Tectonics
Level: Grade 9
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Grade 9 Tectonics

What theory explains how energy is released during an earthquake, deriving from the work of Harry Fielding Reid on the displacement of the ground surface during the San Andreas Fault in 1906?
  1. Plate tectonics theory
  2. Elastic rebound theory
  3. Seismic gap theory
  4. Scientific theory