At the moment, a paradoxical situation has arisen in geophysics: the science of seismology, as part of geophysics, exists, and the real results of research are absent. This is because the Reid-Richter hypothesis [H.Reid, C.Richter], which became the dogmatic foundation of seismology, is pseudoscientific, because it violates the fundamental laws of physics. Consequently, without having a real theory of the earth’s crust movements, all the research will be rested and will rest on a dead end until seismology finds the ground in the form of a theory based on a scientific basis. The whole trouble is that Reid and Richter did not understand the meaning of the second law of thermodynamics and the principle of minimum energy resulting from this law with reference to the process of earthquakes, and the researchers who followed them, because of the academic inertia of thinking, raised their hypothesis to the rank of dogma.. The purpose of this article is to bring to the researchers the seismology coryphaeus Reid and Richter hypothesis falsity and to outline an alternative way of explaining the causes of earthquakes, rock shocks and sudden outbursts. In this article critical remarks to the work of Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences A.L. Buchachenko «Magnetoplasticity and the physics of earthquakes. Is it possible to prevent a catastrophe?» are expressed. In our opinion, this particular work is a mirror of the modern and typical reflection of the earthquakes causes and energy question. The article second goal is to outline the earthquakes, rock shocks and sudden outbursts causes an alternative way of explaining.