Each year thousands of banks and other financial institutions report data about mortgages to the public, thanks to the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, or HMDA for short.
An earthquake is sudden ground movement caused by the sudden release of energy stored in rocks. The earthquake happens when so much stress builds up in the rocks that the rocks rupture. An earthquake's energy is transmitted by seismic waves.
Earthquakes are caused by the movement of the tectonic plates underneath Earths surface.Volcanic eruptions only happen in certain places because they only form on the plate boundaries where there is a subduction boundary.