The document discusses earthquakes, including what causes them, different types of faults, and some of the deadliest earthquakes in Philippine history. Earthquakes are caused by a sudden slip along a fault in the earth's crust that releases built-up energy. There are two main types of earthquakes - tectonic, caused by movement along faults, and volcanic, caused by activity below active volcanoes. Geologists cannot yet precisely predict earthquakes because they do not fully understand conditions deep underground where quakes start and lack certainty around when and where stored stress will be released.