It’s the place volcanoes form.
What is the “Ring of Fire”?
Earthquakes are rated in this.
What is magnitude?
There are 18 of these.
What are tectonic plates?
The estimated amount of earthquakes that occur annually.
What is 2,000?
Mount Fuji, St Helens, and Mauna Loa are examples of these.
What are volcanoes?
The sudden rolling or shaking events caused by movement under earth’s surface.
What are earthquakes?
It is the largest tectonic plate.
What is the Pacific Plate?
Various shapes allow this material to bend without breaking.
What is structural steel?
The 3 forms volcanoes are found in.
What are active, dormant, and extinct volcanoes?
They attach to beams and use pistons and oil to convert motion into heat and absorb shock.
What are tuned dampers?
They are the 3 types of plate boundaries.
What are convergent, divergent, and transform boundaries?
These are released from a volcano.
What is lava, gasses, ash, and rock?
Surrounded by continents sitting on plates that press the plates underlining this, resulting in volcanoes(The Ring of Fire)
What is the Pacific Ocean?
The largest earthquake to ever be recorded with a magnitude of 9.5.
What is The 1960 Valdivia Earthquake
They proposed the theory of continental drift explaining why outlines of many coasts lines look like they fit together in a puzzle.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
The amount of people killed at the eruptions of Krakatoa and Tamboura in Indonesia.
What is 100,000?
The largest volcano ever recorded ranking 7 on the VEI(volcanic explosivity index)
What is Mount Tambora?
A damping method used primarily in skyscrapers.
What is pendulum power?
They are the 7 major plate boundaries.
What are the Pacific, North American, Eurasian, African, Antarctic, Indo Australia, and South American plates?
The earthquakes of California are caused by this.
What is the movement of the Pacific and North American plates?