answersLogoWhite

0


Best Answer

As a date has not been specified in the question, the answer has to be general in nature:

The Nazca and South American plates typically cause earthquakes in Chile.

User Avatar

Wiki User

14y ago
This answer is:
User Avatar

Add your answer:

Earn +20 pts
Q: Which two tectonics plates caused the earthquake in Chile?
Write your answer...
Submit
Still have questions?
magnify glass
imp
Related questions

What could have caused the Chile earthquake?

the tectonic plates


What plates is Chile next to?

Chile is next to the Nazca Plate and the South American Plate. These plates are what caused the 1960 earthquake.


What type of plates caused the Chile earthquake in 1960?

Tectonic plates formed the earthquake in 1960 due to a collision with one another.


What three plates caused the Chile earthquake?

Nazca and the South American. there isn't a third


How did Chile's earthquake shorten the days in earth?

By plate Tectonics


Why is it not unusual for the population of Chile to experience on earthquake?

Chile is located at a boundary between two tectonic plates.


What caused the Chile and Haiti earthquakes?

tetonic plates


Chile earthquake May 22 1960?

This earthquake had a magnitude of 9.5 and caused tsnami's 10 meter's high! i


What type of plate boundary caused the Chile earthquake in 1960?

transform boundary


How did the miners in Chile get trapped underground?

The collapse of the mine was supposedly caused by an earthquake.


How did the Chile earthquake tipped the earth?

The Chile earthquake, powerful as it was, was not nearly powerful enough to tilt the earth. If you imagine a large bell in a cathedral and you hit that bell with a spoon, that is about the effect that an earthquake has on the earth as a whole. It caused some MAJOR destruction and caused Chile to pay millions for the damage, and many people were killed or injured.


How fast has the planet earth been spinning at different points in the past if the Chile earthquake caused the world to speed up?

The Chile earthquake did not make the Earth "speed up"