This article is about the Windows file system browser. For file browsers and file managers in general, see file manager. File Explorer, previously known as Windows Explorer, is a file manager application that is included with releases of the Microsoft Windows operating system from Windows 95 onwards. It provides a graphical user interface for accessing the file systems.
Earthquakes occur when energy stored in elastically strained rocks is suddenly released. This release of energy causes intense ground shaking in the area near the source of the earthquake and sends waves of elastic energy, called seismic waves, throughout the Earth.
Most of the worldâs earthquakes take place in the Pacific Ring of Fire, and some seismologists are warning that a single quake may claim the lives of millions of people if it occurs in a mega-city such as Tokyo. In the pre-Middle Ages, earthquakes were though to be caused by âair in the cavities of the Earthâ. Pliny the Elder called earthquakes âunderground thunderstormsâ. In Norse mythology, earthquakes were explained as the violent struggling of the god Loki. In Greek mythology, Poseidon was the cause and god of earthquakes.