KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) – How do earthquakes happen? WATE 6 Storm Team’s Matt Hinkin breaks it down. Most earthquakes are caused built up stress along faults, fractures in the earth’s crust.

Earthquake: An earthquake is a dangerous natural disaster that causes significant damage to life and property worldwide every year. Understanding earthquakes is essential for everyone, and in this ...

There’ve been many earthquakes in the last couple of years. Be it the quake on Republic Day in Bhuj, Gujarat , in 2001, the Indian Ocean earthquake right after Christmas in 2004, the Haiti quake ...