The understanding of the identity of place is important in the fields of geography, urban planning, and environmental psychology
This is especially important when trying to understand the why a place can have a strong emotional pull on people and how they
view themselves and their community. For example, Texans may have strong, positive feelings about their state because

B. it strengthens their sense of being different from surrounding states.

Explanation:

"Humans want to belong, whether to a group, a family, a culture, or a belief system. This sense of belonging can also be applied to a state or a region, and is an important part of maintaining and acknowledging differences between groups. "

true. earthquakes are felt whenever there is a slip around a fault in the rocks below the earth. this reorientation of faults create sesmic waves and is known as earthquake, the severity of which is measured in richter scale. these are more prominent in hilly regions as the rocks usually form faults to balance the pressures on it.