The India or Indian Plate is a tectonic plate that was originally a part of the ancient continent of Gondwanaland from which it split off, eventually becoming a major plate. About 50 to 55 million years ago, it fused with the adjacent Australian Plate. It is today part of the major Indo-Australian Plate, and includes the subcontinent of India and a portion of the basin under the Indian ocean.
In the late Cretaceous Period about 90 million years ago, subsequent to the splitting off from Gondwanaland of conjoined Madagascar and India, the India Plate split from Madagascar. It began moving north, at about 20 cm/yr (8 in/yr) [1], and began colliding with Asia between 50 and 55 million years ago, in the Eocene epoch of the Cenozoic Era. During this time, the India Plate covered a distance of 2,000 to 3,000 km (1,200 to 1,900 mi), and moved faster than any other known plate. In 2007, German geologists determined that the reason the India Plate moved so quickly is that it is only half as thick as the other plates which formerly constituted Gondwanaland.[1]
The collision with the Eurasian Plate along the boundary between India and Nepal formed the orogenic belt that created the Tibetan Plateau and the Himalaya Mountains, as sediment bunched up like earth before a plow.
The India Plate is currently moving northeast at 5 cm/yr (2 in/yr), while the Eurasian Plate is moving north at only 2 cm/yr (0.8 in/yr). This is causing the Eurasian Plate to deform, and the India Plate to compress at a rate of 4 mm/yr (0.15 in/yr).
2004 Indian Ocean earthquakeThe 9.3 moment magnitude 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake was caused by the release of stresses built up along the subduction zone where the India Plate is sliding under the Burma Plate in the eastern Indian Ocean, at a rate of 6 cm/yr (2.5 in/yr). The Sunda Trench is formed along this boundary where the Indo-Australian and Eurasian Plates meet. Earthquakes in the region are either caused by thrust faulting, where the fault slips at right angles to the trench; or strike-slip faulting, where material to the east of the fault slips along the direction of the trench.Like all similarly large earthquakes, the December 26, 2004 event was caused by thrust-faulting. A 100 km (60 mi) rupture caused about 1,600 km (994 mi) of the interface to slip, which moved the fault 15 m (50 ft) and lifted the sea floor several meters (yards), creating the great tsunami.
An earthquake is called an earthquake no matter whether it is small or large. An earth tremor is just a general term used by people to describe a small earthquake.
it depends on whether it is a LEDC or a MEDC earthquake
Most small earthquakes are just background seismicity. There is no way to tell whether a small event will be followed by a larger one. But if there is a larger earthquake afterwards, the first earthquake is called a "foreshock"
Richter scale measures the ground motion from an earthquakes to find the earthquakes strength. mercalli scale measures expresses intensity in roman numerals from I to XII and provides a description of the effects of each earthquake intensity.
Assessment of the risks cannot be made categorically. The danger presented by a volcano depends on the size and type of eruptions it produces and how the eruptions may interact with terrain and climate. Large, explosive eruptions tend to be the most dangerous, especially where a wet climate may increase the risk of mudflows. Similarly, the danger from an earthquake depends on the size and depth of the earthquake, the type of material at the surface, quality of building construction, and whether there is potential for a tsunami. Large, shallow earthquakes tend to be more destructive and areas build on soft sediment are usually worse hit than areas built on bedrock.
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An earthquake is called an earthquake no matter whether it is small or large. An earth tremor is just a general term used by people to describe a small earthquake.
If iodine is not available, determine whether starch hydrolysis has occurred using a refractometer or plot the yeast that forms.
Earthquakes, can happen at any time, so it is impossible to tell whether or not an earthquake is happening at this current moment.
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it depends on whether it is a LEDC or a MEDC earthquake
Most small earthquakes are just background seismicity. There is no way to tell whether a small event will be followed by a larger one. But if there is a larger earthquake afterwards, the first earthquake is called a "foreshock"
yes they are supposed to but it is also your responsibility to ask. it is also a public record so you can go to a public libary and find out who did die in your appartment and when they died and sometimes even how.
well you cant tell because earthquakes can occur any where dependeing which fault the earthquake goes to
Possibly, as LA is prone to earthquakes, but most are weak and cause little or no damage. There is no way of knowing whether there will be a major earthquake in or near the city.
A tsunami is caused by an earthquake, which means that the earthquake would make the Earthquake list. Whether the list would include information on the created tsunami is unknown. Magnitude doesn't always correlate directly to the magnitude of the earthquake nor does it have a direct relationship with the number of deaths or the amount of destruction caused.The highest magnitude Earthquake was recorded in Chile in 1960 with a Magnitude of 9.5. ThisEarthquake created a tsunami that was initially 82 feet high, diminished to 35 feet when it hit the island of Hilo and only 15 feet when it reached Japan.The 2nd worst recorded Earthquake occurred December 26th, 2004 Earthquake Magnitude 9.1-9.3.This quake created 5 tsunamis.The largest/tallest recorded tsunami was created by a magnitude 7.9 earthquake that generated a wave 1720 feet high.
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