When plates are continually moving against each other, energy accumulates. Release of this energy results in the earthquakes that people feel, which may create new fault lines. Taiwan's 1946 Hsinhua earthquake, for instance, created the Hsinhua fault.
板塊持續擠壓，累積新的能量，在釋放時，引發有感地震，此時能量帶來的破壞可能產生新的斷層，一九四六年台灣發生新化地震，產生了新化斷層。