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>>8589760
bet you dont have a flat earther with actual sources from science.
From the USGS, that is the United States Geological Survey, CMG InfoBank: Causes of Earthquakes:
"Radioactive decay generates the heat, energy, which ultimately powers movements of Earth's rocky tectonic plates.
The friction between the rough edges of these slowly moving segments of the Earth's lithosphere results in a series of jerky starts and stops, which is the direct cause of most major earthquakes.
The same heat engine that produces earthquakes is the driving force raising the world's great mountain ranges.
If this uplift did not take place, the relentless force of erosion would reduce the Earth's landscape to a single flat plane.
Without the present range of elevations, rivers would lose their principal sources of water.
The land would ultimately erode down to tide level, and most of the diversity in the world's flora and fauna would disappear.
And yet, while there are indirect benefits to living in a world with earthquakes, it's the capacity of tremors to violently disrupt human activity that commands our attention."

Let me green text that for you
>The same heat engine that produces earthquakes is the driving force raising the world's great mountain ranges.
>If this uplift did not take place, the relentless force of erosion would reduce the Earth's landscape to a single flat plane.
>If this uplift did not take place
>he relentless force of erosion would reduce the Earth's landscape to a single flat plane.
>reduce the Earth's landscape to a single flat plane.
>single flat plane.
>single flat plane.
>single flat plane.
https://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/programs/html/school/moviepage/08.01.03.html

abyssal plains cover more than 50% of the Earth’s surface.[1][2] They are among the flattest, smoothest and least explored regions on Earth.[3]
> cover more than 50% of the Earth’s surface.
>They are among the flattest regions on Earth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abyssal_plain