terrified. It affects earth‚ people and property. Earthquakes can do a lot of damage and I will tell you about the effects from them. The first thing earthquakes effects is earth. When two continental plates meet‚ earthquakes are happening‚ volcano eruptions and mountain formation caused by continental plates. Earthquakes cause the ground to shake and creates cracks and holes in the ground. They can also make trees and other objects in the wild or nature‚ fall and crash into the ground. Soil in the ground
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crustal plates are bumping each other. On May 22‚ 1960‚ in the middle of the afternoon‚ a wide range of place started to quake‚ near Valdivia‚ in southern Chile and lasted in 7 to 10 minutes. Consequently‚ dozens of islands and countries were affected; and the death toll‚ and monetary costs skyrocketed. Everything has its own reason. As for the Great Chilean Earthquake (or the Valdivia Earthquake)‚ it occurred‚ caused of the release of mechanical stress between the subducting Nazca Plate and the
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Secondary Social Studies for Pakistan Book 3 Teaching Guide Revised Edition Peter Moss Contents Introduction ...................................................................................................iv Section 1: GEOGRAPHY Chapter 1 The Universe ..............................................................................1 Chapter 2 The Earth ....................................................................................4 Chapter 3 Major climatic regions of the world ..
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Mount Saint Helen’s Volcano‚ part of the cascade mount range‚ is associated with the subduction zone of the Juan du Fuca plate into the North American plate‚ as is most of the volcanism in this mount range (USGS Geology & History). The eruption intensity is normally quite explosive but Mt. Saint Hellen’s has experienced the peaceful one on occasion (USGS Geology & History). With frequent eruption every couple hundred years (rough estimate at best)‚ Mt. Saint Helen’s is the most active volcano of
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in Japan at 5:46 am. The earthquake had a magnitude of 7.4 on the Richter scale. The quake only lasted 20 seconds‚ but killed over 6‚400 people. This earthquake was caused by the subduction of the denser oceanic Philippines Plate by the lighter continental Eurasian Plate. During the 20 second earthquake‚ the ground moved 50cm horizontally and 1m vertically. This caused over 350‚000 people to become injured. More than 7‚500 wooden houses completely collapsed. Some buildings built in the 1960’s
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collision created the Iapetus Suture- Laurussia(Old Red Continent). The Caldedonian orogeny lasted around 150 Ma occurring mainly between the late Cambrian (490 Ma ago) and the mid Devonian (390 Ma ago). The Iapetus Ocean separating the colliding plates was subducted during this orogeny.
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1. What is the ultimate cause of movement within the earth’s crust? ANSWERS: Radioactive decay generates the heat energy that powers movements of plates. 2. What causes earthquakes? ANSWERS: Friction between the rough edges of slowly moving segments or plates of the earth’s lithosphere result in a series of jerky starts and stops which is the direct cause of most earthquakes. 3. What is a fault? ANSWERS: Faults are fractures in rocks along which displacement has taken place 4
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ancient oceans change to become what we now see today? It is a popular opinion that the World was once a supercontinent called “Pangaea”. At this time there was only one ocean called “Panthalassa”. The pieces of the supercontinent were giant plates that fit together like a jigsaw puzzle. Through years and years of continental drift‚ the giant jigsaw pieces became the continents of the world we know today. The splitting apart of the continents gave way to new oceans. The continents continue
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Bahariya Bahariya oasis is a natural oval shaped depression. It is located at the contact between cretaceous and Eocene deposits. One of the early geologic works was carried out by Ball and Beadnell (1903). They produce a topographical- geological map of the oasis and discuss the stratigraphy of the rock exposed. They distinguished three topographic features; the bounding escarpments; the conical hills within the depression and the oasis floor. They notice that the southern scarp is steeper than
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literally sink. Excellent clip 2011 Japan Tsunamis Mega tsunami caused by a landslide July 9th 1958 Explanation Outline causes A tsunami can be generated when destructive plate boundaries abruptly move and vertically displace the overlying water. It is very unlikely that they can form at constructive or conservative plate boundaries. This is because constructive or conservative boundaries do not generally disturb the vertical displacement of the water column. Subduction zone related earthquakes
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