Earthquakes and tsunamis impact Japan for a different reason than typhoons do.
Japan is located just west of a subduction zone, where one of Earth's tectonic plates slowly slides beneath another. As this happens, the convergin plates periodically snag and build up tension. This tension eventually becomes two much and the crust shift into a more stable position, releasing energy in the form of an earthquake. When these earthquakes happen there can be significant upward and downward movement at different points on the ocean floor. This displaces the water above it, triggering tsunami waves.
A typhoon is basically a hurricane in the western Pacific, a kind of storm called a tropical cyclone. They develop from low pressure systems that are fed by the moisture that evaporates from warm ocean water. Due to the way ocean currents circulate, the best places for such storms to form are in the western portions of ocean basins. When the storms form the usually start out moving west and then often turn northward. This carries many storms toward Japan. The islands of Japan are at the same latitude as the eastern Coast of the United States, which is prone to hurricanes. In this case, though, the western Pacific is an even greater producer of tropical cyclones than the Atlantic is.
When the earth's plates collide.
not necessarily, they strike on the fault lines of tectonic plates, when the plates bump into each other, they create volcanoes or earthquakes
Earthquakes are worse. Earthquakes strike with no warning and cover a larger area than tornadoes and can have much higher death tolls, especially those that trigger tsunamis.
The tectonic factors that create the Caribbean islands and haiti are also what causes them to be at risk. Haiti is at the intersection of the caribbean plate and the North American plate with a sinistral (left lateral) strike slip fault to the west and a convergent subduction boundary to the East. Stresses from this oblique convergence will cause earthquakes along the near surface due to the strike slip fault and deeper plutonic earthquakes due to the subduction zone. Why is there a large amount of damage from earthquakes in Haiti? Their buildings aren't made of strong enough materials to withstand it. They also don't have the funds to properly build them.
Typically after deep sea earthquakes or during particularly violent hurricanes.
-Avalanches -Cyclones -Earthquakes -Floods -Hurricanes -Landslide -Meteor/Asteroid strike -Mud slide -Tornadoes -Tsunamis -Typhoons -Wildfires
Did you hear about Haiti? Yes! Haiti is an island in the Caribbean shared by the Dominican Republic.
between may and august
On average, Japan experiences around 30 typhoons each year. These typhoons can cause significant damage due to their strong winds and heavy rainfall.
The ability to strike back at Japanese forces and retake all the Pacific islands that Japan had invaded.
Earthquakes
When the earth's plates collide.
Naguru - to strike.
not necessarily, they strike on the fault lines of tectonic plates, when the plates bump into each other, they create volcanoes or earthquakes
They strike the most where tectonic plates are found and when the hit each other
No. Earthquakes differ in cause (strike-slip, megathrust, volcanic, etc.) and in intensity.
The lightning strike caused a power outage in the neighborhood.