The San Andreas Fault experiences earthquakes when trapped energy is released. One of the biggest nuclear reactor catastrophes in history occurred at this location as a result of a 9.09 magnitude earthquake that occurred in a nearby subduction zone.
earthquakes on shallow faults. A fault is a crack in the rock that is directly under our feet.earthquakes in subduction zones. Subduction zone earthquakes are the biggest earthquakes ever recorded.profound earthquakes Deep under the continental crust, in the subducting ocean slab, deep earthquakes take place. The number of earthquakes per year varies somewhat from this average, as with any quasi-random phenomenon, although there are often no significant fluctuations. On May 22, 1960, in Chile, a magnitude 9.5 earthquake—a "megaquake" in and of itself—with a fault approximately 1,000 miles long—became the biggest earthquake ever to be recorded.
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