In Indonesia earlier this year a young friend was explaining his science lesson and proudly declared snakes get their venom from the sun. The snake has two things like buckets in its head full of water and the sun turns it into venom.The earth is a capacitor. It has north and south poles and is regularly charged by self rotation and movement of air, water, solar effects, man made electric charges and lightning effect of rainwater circulation.
Slowly the earth gets charged like a capacitor with the soil, water, plants, minerals, chemicals etc play as a negative plate and the inner core and the sky cloud plays as a positive plate of the capacitor.Though they are not connected as conductors but due to several scientific changes inside the two plates there will be leakage of currents and it becomes a short circuit inside the earth which brings magnetic polarity changes for a few seconds and thus the earth shakes. Another subject is when the high voltage inside the earth explodes with more than 30 000 voltage with mega amperes.
This igniting point is called the epicenter. If the lightning and thunder above the earth can shake part of the earth then a mega power lightning with heat and sound can obviously crush the earth with the energy and shake the earth with its produced sound wave and energy.
Thus the reaction makes land faults when it exposes out of surface. The earth plates are moved creating faults
On another occasion a young woman told me all the planets were one large planet at one point in time which collided with the sun breaking into little planets we see now.
I'll never again take shots at unqualified backpackers teaching kids in Asia.