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The Greater Antilles are located near a transform plate boundary between the North American Plate and the Caribbean Plate. These plates are silding past one another. In the area where these plates meet, stress builds up, which is released in the form of earthquakes.
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Why are there few earthquakes with a focal depth greater than 20 km?
Earthquakes take place in the Earth's tectonic plates, which are not thick enough to have earthquakes deeper than 20 km. Below the plates is the magma of the Earth's mantle, and being liquid, the magma does not experience quakes, just currents.
When an earthquake occurs is shaking greater?
Yes, shaking is a primary characteristic of earthquakes
The Ring of Fire has many earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.?
Why do the areas along the ring of fire experience many volcanic eruptions and earthquakes?
Why do Southeast Asia's large islands experience frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions?
They have frequent earthquakes because other countries have earthquakes then waves from that flow to islands creating an earthquake. The earthquake then triggers a volcano.
Can you predict the part of the US mostly to experience strong earthquakes?
Yes. Earthquakes occur most often along fault lines. There are also many different devices (seismograph) that sense seismic waves and can predict earthquakes.
Which group of islands in the Caribbean experience relief rainfall?
The Greater Antilles
Is Cuba located in the Bahamas Lesser Antilles or Greater Antilles?
the greater antilles
Is Central America closer to the Greater Antilles or to the Lesser Antilles?
Central America is closer to the Greater Antilles.
Which island nation is the largest in area and is it located in the Bahamas Greater Antilles or Lesser Antilles?
the greater antilles
Look at the inset map. Is Central America closer to the Greater Antilles or to the Lesser Antilles?
greater antilles
What is the smallest island of greater Antilles?
Puerto Rico is the smallest island of the greater Antilles.
Which two groups of islands are located in the Caribbean sea?
Greater and lesser Antilles
Is Cuba located in the Greater Antilles?
Yes, Cuba is located in the Greater Antilles.
What is the island of the greater Antilles?
Puerto Rico is the smallest island of the greater Antilles.
What is the largest country in the Greater Antilles?
CUBA is the largest country in the Greater Antilles.
The West Indies is made up of Bahamas and which two other island groups?
The Greater Antilles and the Lesser Antilles
Where is the Greater Antilles?
It is the island of Trinidad and Tobago, which is in the lesser antilles.
