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A volcano is a mountain from which molten rock erupts into the surface through a vent or opening in the Earth’s crust called fissure.
What is a volcano?
Volcanoes in Mexico are part of the Pacific Ring of Fire and they are found in the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Axis.
Where are volcanoes in Mexico found?
Magma is spewed as a consequence of the high pressures and high temperatures beneath the crust. This pressure mainly occurs place where tectonic plates meet.
Why is magma spewed from a volcano?
The Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt runs through the states of Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima, Michoacán, Guanajuato, Querétaro, Estado de México, Mexico City, Hidalgo, Morelos, Tlaxcala, Puebla, and Veracruz.
Through which Mexican states does the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt run?
An earthquake is a sudden movement or shaking of the ground caused by the release of energy in rocks through seismic waves.
What is an earthquake?
A region on the edges of the Pacific plate where more than 75% of all the world’s active and dormant volcanoes are found and about 80% of all major earthquakes on the planet occur.
What is the Pacific Ring of Fire?
Volcanic activity tends to take place along subduction zones at convergent boundaries.
Where do volcanic and seismic activity take place?
Pico de Orizaba (Citlaltépetl), Popocatépetl, Iztaccíhuatl, Ceboruco, Volcán de Fuego de Colima, El Chichón, Paricutín, and Nevado de Toluca.
Which are the most notable volcanoes along the Trans-Mexican belt?
It is a volcanic belt formed millions of years ago when the Rivera and Cocos plates subducted under the North American Plate.
What is the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt?
Volcanoes, ocean trenches, and volcanic arcs.
What can be found at convergent boundaries along the Ring of Fire?
Earthquakes take place along all three types of plate boundaries.
Along which plate boundaries do earthquakes take place?
Mid-ocean ridges, submarine volcanoes, and volcanic islands.
What can be found at divergent boundaries along the Ring of Fire?
At convergent and transforming boundaries.
Along which plate boundaries have powerful and deadly earthquakes been reported?
At divergent boundaries.
Along which plate boundaries have weak or less powerful earthquakes been reported?