Prompt Use a map of your state to answer this question: what factors did the founders of your state use to determine the state's
boundaries? Did your state's founders choose boundaries based on physical features or lines of longitude and latitude?

true. earthquakes are felt whenever there is a slip around a fault in the rocks below the earth. this reorientation of faults create sesmic waves and is known as earthquake, the severity of which is measured in richter scale. these are more prominent in hilly regions as the rocks usually form faults to balance the pressures on it.