Articles for Plate Boundaries

An ‘oddball’ 6.0 earthquake is recorded almost 800 miles off Southern California’s coast
2 years, 4 months ago

An ‘oddball’ 6.0 earthquake is recorded almost 800 miles off Southern California’s coast

LA Times  

A 6.0 magnitude earthquake was recorded almost 800 miles off the Southern California coast Tuesday night, an “oddball” event that made little impact but drew intrigue from scientists because of its location. https://t.co/S5gp0x66Q4 pic.twitter.com/FDVYwkeb0S — USGS Earthquakes November 2, 2022 The earthquake’s location is considered odd because it did not fall near or along tectonic plate boundaries, but in the …

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The science of earthquakes explained
8 years, 1 month ago

The science of earthquakes explained

ABC  

Earthquakes can cause immense damage to buildings and infrastructure, trigger tsunamis, and reshape the Earth's surface with their force. The largest earthquakes happen where one plate collides and slips under another or collides with and slips past another Megathrust earthquakes Plate boundaries converge, a process that can generate earthquakes. " "Once the strain reaches a certain point, that locked section …

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Quakes away from plate boundaries may be triggered by mantle flow
9 years, 7 months ago

Quakes away from plate boundaries may be triggered by mantle flow

ABC  

News in Science Quakes away from plate boundaries may be triggered by mantle flow Earthquakes Earthquakes occurring away from tectonic plate boundaries can be triggered by the rise and fall of hot material through the Earth's mantle, according to a new study. "We found that the location of intraplate seismicity in the western United States appears to be predominately controlled …

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Of plate tectonics, quakes and tsunamis
20 years, 2 months ago

Of plate tectonics, quakes and tsunamis

The Hindu  

THE total energy released in the mega earthquake of magnitude 9.0 on the Richter scale off the Sumatra coast on December 26 was of the order of 20 x 1017 Joules or 475 megatons of the explosive trinitrotoluene, or the equivalent of 23,000 atom bombs, such as the one that destroyed Hiroshima. Such are the scales of energy that accumulate …

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