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What is the difference between a tectonic plate and a fault line?
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What fault was the kamchatka earthquake on?
The Kamchatka earthquake was on the Pacific plate.
Why do earthquakes occur in loma prieta?
because loma preita mountain sits on the boundry between the North American Tectonic plate and the Pacific plate where the san Andreas fault lies.
What faulting in earthquakes?
A fault is a break in Earth's crust along which blocks of rock slide relative to one another. A fault can occur within a tectonic plate's boundaries. Boundaries between tectonic plates are always faults.
Where do tectonic plates interact?
Interactions between tectonic plates occur at plate boundaries.
Why do earthquakes occur more often in some places that in others?
They occur because of nature. Volcanic eruptions signal off an earthquake because normally a volcanic eruption and an earthquake are on a fault line/edge of a tectonic plate.
What is the difference between plate tectonic and tectonic plate?
Plate Tectonics is the process by by which the earth's tectonic plates move.
What tectonic plate is San Andreas Fault on?
Faults do not appear on plates. They appear in between plates.
What is a fault or boundary?
Fault lines exist where one tectonic plate meets another. For example the San Andreas Fault in California is the boundary between the North American plate (on the east of the fault line) and the Pacific plate (on the west of the fault line)
What fault was the kamchatka earthquake on?
The Kamchatka earthquake was on the Pacific plate.
What is the word for a tectonic plate going under another causing mountains?
That would be called a Normal Fault. Normal Fault is when a tectonic plate appears to have moved down the fault, and the fault is said to be a normal fault.
What type of fault results from horizontal shearing between plates?
Horizontal shearing at tectonic plate boundaries results in a special type of strike slip fault known as a transform fault.
What tectonic plate is Haiti located?
its on the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden Fault
When the rock making up a tectonic plate breaks and moves?
A Fault(:
What mountain range is being created by the collision between the Indians tectonic plate and the Asian tectonic plate?
The mountain range that is being created by the collision between the Indian tectonic plate and Asian tectonic plate is the Himalaya.
How many fault lines are there in SC?
0 because we are in the muddle of a tectonic plate so it is very rare for an earthquake to happen in the middle of a tectonic plate
The borders, or cracks, between tectonic plates are called ________.?
The cracks between the plates of the lithosphere are called plate boundaries. They are the cause of plate tectonics and many natural disasters.
What type of plate boundary is found along the West Coast of Central America?
a tectonic plate fault-
