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What earthquake are there in the North American and Pacific Plate?
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∙ 13y ago
because of the tectonic plat it move and this place that your talking about it's on two different plat.
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What plate margin does Haiti lie on?
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recent Japan earthquake is the example of plate techtonics
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The two plates are the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate are the plates causing the San Andreas Fault.
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no its on the pacific plate
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Tectonic plates caused the earthquake, the Pacific and North American plate were rubbing against each other, and this caused the earthquake. the earthquake caused the Tsunami.
What are the causes of tsunami which was hit by japan?
The sudden movement of the Pacific tectonic plate under the North American plate caused a massive earthquake and a tsunami.
What fault is located between the North American Plate and the Pacific Plate?
The fault between the North American plate and the Pacific plate is the San Andreas Fault.
What direction is the pacific plate moving relative to the north American plate?
north-northwest
What tectonic plates caused the March 2011 Japan earthquake?
The Indian and burma plates hit Indonesia on October 25.
What are the plates called that causes in earthquake?
I would guess the Pacific and North American plates.
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The Southern part of California is on the Pacific plate and the Northern part of California is on the North American plate.
