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What movement does mantle convection currents cause?
They cause plate movement. The plate movement then causes an earthquake.
What triggers to cause an earthquake before a volcano happens?
Earthquakes are caused by a sudden surge of magma from the Earth's mantle.
What does the mantle have to do with the 2011 tsunami in Japan?
The mantle has everything to do with this earthquake, without the convection currents in the mantle the plates would have not moved to cause the earthquake in the first place. The problem is that Japan is at a destructive (also called compressional) plate boundry, not just that but there is another four plate boundaries quite close by to magnify the effect of the earthquake, the movement of the crust could also mean that there could be magma rising through the crust ready for an eruption. The earthquake caused the ocean crust to move 10m which displaced the water to create the tsunami.
Where does a earthquake take place?
In the top part of the mantle and on land.
What was the cause of the yunnan earthquake?
what was the cause of Yunnan china earthquake
How is heat energy from the earth's mantle transformed into earthquake waves?
Transformers!
What type of earthquake wave moves through only crust and mantle?
The type of earthquake wave that moves only through the crust and mantle is called the S-wave (secondary wave). S-waves are slower than P-waves, cannot propagate through liquids like the outer core, and cause side-to-side shaking motion.
What part of the biosphere is changed when a earthquake hits?
The lithosphere is changed when an earthquake hits. The lithosphere is the outermost layer of the Earth's surface that consists of the crust and upper mantle. Earthquakes can cause the lithosphere to shift, fracture, and create faults, leading to changes in the landscape.
Did the japan earthquake cause a hole in the earth?
no...the earthquake did not cause a hole in the earth
What doesn't cause an earthquake?
Drinking a chocolate banana milkshake does not cause an earthquake.
Can a solar eclipse cause an earthquake?
No, a solar eclipse cannot cause an earthquake.
When does a part of an oceanic plate sink into the mantle what is the answer?
During an earthquake, sometimes causing a sunami.
