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Why don’t earthquakes count as severe weather? Explain your answer.

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Answer: Earthquakes are not considered weather events since they are geological events, where all types of weather are meteorological events. Earthquakes are frequently created by shifts in our tectonic plates (underground) and weather takes place within our atmospheric layers.

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There is no such thing as "earthquake weather". ... Very large low-pressure changes associated with major storm systems (typhoons, hurricanes, etc) are known to trigger episodes of fault slip (slow earthquakes) in the Earth's crust and may also play a role in triggering some damaging earthquakes.

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