Pacific Ring of Fire

map had different elevation patterns, so I can differentiate them into groups. I found 3 different categories, and identified them as Type 1, Type 2, and Type 3. My first category is a blue (X) to represent the boundaries outside the Pacific, South American, and Pacific Plate. I noticed that type 1 was found deeper as further into the plate. My second category is a red star to symbolize frontiers around the North American Plate and the outskirts of the African Plate. I classified the pattern as…

c. 1. A whopping 8.3 earthquake lasting several minuets occurred in Chile on Wednesday. Only once a year are quakes of this size seen out of one and a half million quakes a year. Because Chile has a history of earthquakes this has made specialists keep an eye on seismic activity, enabling them to equip buildings to better uphold in the tremors. Although this massive earthquake damage toll could have been much more overwhelming, for its size it was not. Nonetheless, maintenance and cleanup…

The New Madrid Fault is the most active seismic area in the United States east of the Rocky Mountains. The fault is located in southeastern Missouri, northeastern Arkansas, western Tennessee, western Kentucky and southern Illinois. Southwestern Indiana and northwestern Mississippi are also close enough to receive significant shaking from large earthquakes. Despite being far away from current plate boundaries, the New Madrid Fault is a dangerous zone because of the active faults that are…

This case arises out of damages sustained to a 397-unit apartment complex in Camp Springs, Maryland. The Owner, Metropolitan Apartments at Camp Springs, LLC (“Metropolitan”), incurred significant property damage following a magnitude 5.8 earthquake that occurred on August 23, 2011. (E. 1013). Appellee is WCS Construction, LLC (“WCS”), which served as the general contractor and construction manager of the project called “Town Center at Camp Springs Apartments.” (E. 947) Appellant is the…

Mexico City is the most popular metropolitan area in the western hemisphere. Mexico City is the really warm but it get’s really cold in the winters. It’s considered to be the safest part in Mexico. Mexico City is the largest popular area in Mexico(Wikipedia). Mexico City is the southern end of the plateau of Anahuac(Wikipedia). Mexico City is located in Mexico, and Mexico is in North America(Wikipedia). Mexico City has a lot of landforms such as Mexican Plateau‎‎, rivers of Mexico City,…

Studies of past subduction earthquakes are inexact things, based on finding their geologic signs: sudden changes of elevation that drown coastal forests, disturbances in ancient tree rings, buried beds of beach sand washed far inland and so on. Twenty-five years of research has determined that Big Ones affect Cascadia, or large parts of it, every few centuries. Times between events range from 200 to about 1000 years, and the average is around 500 years. The most recent Big One is rather well…

The movement of the Pacific and North American plates cause the old sea floor to be replaced by the now wider North American plate. Also with the movement the continental plate was stretched as the Pacific plate pulled the continental plate to the northwest which again stretched it out. This movement of the plates against each other also created the San Andreas fault which will come up later. What caused the San Andreas fault to be created twenty million years ago was the Pacific plate and the…

Breaking news: Just yesterday at 4:53 pm, the country of Haiti was Figure 1: Port-Au-Prince flattened by 7.0 earthquake. flattened by a devastating earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 causing major destruction. The epicentre was 13 km from the capital of Haiti, Port-Au-Prince. The initial estimates for this disaster, placed the death toll around 210,000. Sadly, this estimate was horribly wrong with the death toll rising well above 300,000. There were many reasons for the death rising so high,…

The Popocatepetl is a volcano that has captured attention since prehispanic times and until know for is activity, size and story. It is one of the highest volcanoes in Mexico as well as one of the most active. The fact that the is a large population living around this volcano makes it even more dangerous. The name “Popocatepetl” was given by the Aztecs, it means “smoking mountain”. They gave it this name because during their empire the Aztecs were able to witness options. The Popocatepetl has…

The Caribbean tectonic plate has a wide variety of height and depth within its borders. While all the land and islands are quite tall, the middle of the plate, that is mostly sea, is much more deep in some areas than others. Around the Yucatan Peninsula, Central America, and all the islands are gradual slopes that gain more depth the further from land-above-sea-level you get, however, from Honduras and Nicaragua to Jamaica, where there should be deeper sea, there is quite a lot of height but…