Plate Tectonics
The Upper Mantle and Crust
What is the Lithosphere
A 1692 earthquake sank which Caribbean pirate hotspot
What is Port Royal
Massive waves that sometimes follow earthquakes
What are tsunamis
This other natural disaster can signal a volcanic eruption
What are earthquakes
City of 1907 Jamaican Earthquake
What is Kingston
There are divergent, convergent and ____ plate boundaries
What are Transform Boundaries
Most of this island had to be abandoned after a volcanic eruption
What is Montserrat
Aftershocks and ____ cause much of the damage after earthquakes
What are landslides
Ash, cinder and gas clouds from a volcanic eruption
What are pyroclastic flows
Hatian earthquake occured in this year
What is 2010
Earthquakes are due moving plates being ___
What is rigid
Word meaning place of sulphur, acts as the name for many Caribbean volcanoes
What is Soufriere
Country seen as the worldwide pioneer for earthquake mitigation
What is Japan
Can mitigate lava flows from predictable volcanoes
What are lava channels
Volcano of 1995 Montserrat eruption
What is Soufriere Hills
The mid-atlantic ridge is caused by ___ plate movement
What is Divergent Plate Movement
Most ___ islands in the Lesser Antilles are volcanic
What are Leeward Islands
This part of buildings need to be flexible to withstand earthquakes
What are the foundations
More explosive volcanoes are on ______ boundaries
What are convergent boundaries
Magnitude of Hatian Earthquake
What is 7.0
This plate combines two very different countries
What is the Indo-Australian plate
Taino goddess said to control earthquakes and volcanoes
Who is Guabancex
Tsunamis are estimated to occur ___ minutes after an earthquake
What is 30 minutes
Country currently evacuating citizens around an active volcano
What is Indonesia
Year of last eruption on Guadeloupe's La Grande Soufriere
What is 1997