sentences:  This causes vertical displacement, which in turn can cause earthquakes.The earthquake was recorded by 110 seismographic stations around the world.The Strait of Messina is part of the regional tectonic feature known as the Calabrian Arc, an area of differential uplift deriving from the dynamics of the Ionian and South Tyrrhenian tectonic units, two of the lithosphere blocks of microplates recognised in the highly fragmented Italian portion of the Africa-Eurasia contact.