Define about earthquakes?

c++ datastructures programs especiallY stacks and queues

Define about earthquakes?
An earthquake is a sudden and sometimes catastrophic movement of a part of the Earth's surface. Earthquakes result from the dynamic release of elastic strain energy that radiates seismic waves. Earthquakes typically result from the movement of faults, planar zones of deformation within the Earth's upper crust. The word earthquake is also widely used to indicate the source region itself. The Earth's lithosphere is a patch work of plates in slow but constant motion (see plate tectonics). Earthquakes occur where the stress resulting from the differential motion of these plates exceeds the strength of the crust. The highest stress (and possible weakest zones) are most often found at the boundaries of the tectonic plates and hence these locations are where the majority of earthquakes occur. Events located at plate boundaries are called interplate earthquakes; the less frequent events that occur in the interior of the lithospheric plates are called intraplate earthquakes (see, for example, New Madrid Seismic Zone). Earthquakes related to plate tectonics are called tectonic earthquakes. Most earthquakes are tectonic, but they also occur in volcanic regions and as the result of a number of anthropogenic sources, such as reservoir induced seismicity, mining and the removal or injection of fluids into the crust. Seismic waves including some strong enough to be felt by humans can also be caused by explosions (chemical or nuclear), landslides, and collapse of old mine shafts, though these sources are not strictly earthquakes.





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Reply:The question was a real "attention getter", but to address your question, I'll use some metaphor.





A 'stack' in a computer is similar to the same stack that you would see for the plates at a 'buffet' restaurant or in a PEZ dispenser. The first plate which is put on the stack (or the first piece of candy in the PEZ dispenser) is the last one to be removed.





In the case of a queue, it is nothing more than a 'line' that you wait in, such as one at the grocery store or at a bank. First in line is the first served.





If you look at the lines which they have at amusement parks, there is usually one big queue, then later, a "queue of queues". This is like a set of lines that are waiting to get onto rides, such as roller coasters. Each car on the roller coaster has its own line that seats so many people.





Data structures in programming are very similar in design.

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