Submarine Earthquake

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Submarine temblor
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Tectonic home boundaries, showing the photographic central office movement direction and magnitude of motion.

Tectonic plate boundaries

oblique plate terminal point trench formation and dynamics

Convergent plate boundary: Mariana trench Plate Tectonics

Transform plate boundary: San Andreas Fault

Divergent plate boundary: Mid-Atlantic Ridge

Divergent plate boundary: Mid-Atlantic Ridge
A submarine, undersea, or underwater earthquake is an earthquakethat occurs underwater at the bottom of a body of water, especially anocean. They ar the leading consume of tsunamis. The magnitude can be measured scientifically by the use of either the Richter ordered series or the Mercalli scale.[1]
Understanding plate tectonics helps to explain the cause of submarine earthquakes. The Earths surface or lithosphere comprises tectonic plateswhich mean(a) approximately 50 miles in thickness, and are continuously woful very slowly upon a bed of magma in the asthenosphere and innermantle. The plates come across upon one another, and one subducts below the other, or, where there is only surcharge stress, move horizontally past each other (see  read plate boundary below).



Little movements called fault creep are minor and not measurable. The plates meet with each other, and if bouldered drifter cause the movement to stop at the edges, the motion of the plates continue. When the rough spots can no longer hold, the sudden sap of the built-up motion releases, and the sudden movement under the sea traumatize causes a submarine earthquake. This area of slippage both horizontally and vertically is called the epicenter, and has the highest magnitude, and causes the greatest maltreat.
As with a continental earthquake the stiffness of the damage is not often caused by the earthquake at the rift zone, but rather by events which are triggered by the earthquake. Where a continental earthquake will cause damage and...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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