Earthquake. Conceptual artwork of concentric cracks and ripples both on land and at sea, representing an earthquake in southern Spain and the western

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Earthquake. Conceptual artwork of concentric cracks and ripples both on land and at sea, representing an earthquake in southern Spain and the western Mediterranean, as seen from space. Earthquakes are caused by tectonic forces as the plates of the Earth's crust move past and against each other. This artwork could also represent the effects on land and at sea of a massive meteorite impact.

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Size: 6000px × 5334px
Photo credit: © JOSE ANTONIO PENAS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: artwork, bolide, cracks, crater, destruction, disaster, earth, earthquake, europe, european, faulting, faults, geography, geological, geology, iberia, iberian, illustration, impact, mediterranean, meteorite, meteoroid, natural, peninsula, physical, planet, plate, region, science, seismic, seismological, seismology, space, spain, spanish, tectonic, tectonics, tsnuami, tsunamis