The Haitian earthquake rates as along with the Sumatran earthquake and tsunami as the most terrible earthquake since 1975. Tangshan, Kashmir, and Sichuan round out the top five.
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I need the top ten places where earthquakes are a threat to people for tomorrow
it is prone. In fact it is in the top five most quake states. So yeah it is prone to earthquakes. by Abbigail
Alaska, California and Hawaii in that order have the most earthquakes in the US. California is particularly vulnerable to earthquakes because it is on top of where two of the Earth's tectonic plates meet: The Pacific plate and North American plate meet below California.
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According to the USGS National Earthquake Center there were no earthquakes between 1974 - 2003 that were larger than magnitude 3.5 in following states:ConnecticutDelawareFloridaIowaMarylandNorth DakotaVermontWisconsinCalifornia and Alaska top the list for the most earthquakes in the US for that period.
The 1933 Long Beach earthquake.
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Earthquakes and volcanoes are usually found near plate boundaries.
Most earthquakes occur along the Pacific Ring of Fire, which is along the top half of the pacific plate. +++ Perhaps the second major area is the Eastern Mediterranean and neighbouring countries, involving a complex of continental plates, with NE Africa rifting and the Mediterranean closing. "Top half of the Pacific plate". Actually, the Pacific floor consists of several plates, with some being subducted below SE Asia, and some below the Americas.
Turkey sits on top of several internal faults within the Eurasian plate. It is the rubbing of these internal faults that produces the earthquakes.