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The surface of the earth is made up of tectonic plates that fit together a bit like a jigsaw puzzle. They move around slowly, but sometimes the plates will converge, creating heat & pressure. The heavier plate willsub ductbelow the other at the fault line, resulting in an earthquake as the plates slip & the energy is released in the form of an earthquake.
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Which two events commonly take place within the Ring of Fire?
earthquakes
How can scientists prevent people from earthquakes?
At this point, scientists don't prevent earthquakes. But their predictions may help minimize an earthquake's damaging and destructive effects. Advance warning may allow people to make their properties more earthquake resistant and may let appropriate organizations have emergency preparedness measures in place.
Where do 4 out of 5 earthquakes take place?
In the Ring of Fire, a volcanically active fault line encircling the Pacific Ocean.
Is an earthquake caused by converging plates?
Many earthquakes are produced act converging plates. However a number of strong earthquakes also take place at transform boundaries where plates slide past one another, neither converging nor diverging. On rare occasions strong quakes will take place within a plate.
Where in the world do earthquakes and volcanoes happen?
Earthquakes occur near faults and near the edges of plates in the earth's crust. Volcanic eruptions occur wherever a volcano is. Volcanic eruptions can occur when magma from below Earth's surface seeps through a weak spot in the crust. Volcanoes occur along plate boundaries, along the edges of plates, so this is where volcanoes occur also.
Why do earthquakes take place in Turkey?
Turkey sits on top of several internal faults within the Eurasian plate. It is the rubbing of these internal faults that produces the earthquakes.
Why do earthquakes take place near the la area?
Because it is close to the San Andreas fault
Where do earthquakes NOT take place?
2
Where do earhtquakes take place?
Earthquakes can take place at tectonic plate boundaries where there is stress and movement along the plates. This includes places like the Ring of Fire around the Pacific Plate, transform boundaries like the San Andreas Fault, and collision boundaries like the Himalayas. Earthquakes can also occur within plates due to faults or volcanic activity.
Which sphere does earthquakes take place in?
the biosphere
Are the earthquakes that take place along the other faults in the San Andreas Fault Zone always smaller than the earthquakes that take place on the San Andreas Fault itself?
No. While the largest earthquakes the San Andreas Fault can produce are larger than the largest ones its "sister" faults can produce, not every earthquake it produces is that large. As an example, the San Andreas Fault caused the 2004 Park field earthquake, which was a magnitude 6.0. The Hayward Fault, which runs parallel to the San Andreas Fault, has generated earthquakes at least as strong as 6.8. The 1994 Northridge earthquake, a magnitude 6.7, was the result of a previously undiscovered thrust fault beneath Los Angeles.
How many earthquakes take place daily?
200
When and where will earthquakes take place?
We can't predict when an earthquake will happen, however: Earthquakes happen when tectonic plates 'slip'.
Which two events commonly take place within the Ring of Fire?
earthquakes
Do scientist have the power to control or predict earthquakes?
Scientists have no power to control earthquakes, nor to specifically predict them, but a logical area that the earthquakes would take place is along the plates of the earths crust. (Their shifting leads to earthquakes)
Do earthquakes and volcanoes often take place?
I don't know go ask your mummy!
In which country do the strongest earthquakes take place?
I think it would probably be china or japan.
