Week Two: Earth and Plate Tectonics.
In this
week’s reading we learned how the minerals in the earth’s crust effect different
tectonic plates that are ultimately responsible for some of the most
devastating natural hazards. The country that I am researching is El Salvador. This
week I was able to learn that it inside the Carribean Plate but it is actually
closer to the Coco’s plate. El Salvador is in a transform boundary and that
means that the plates move side by side and past each other (pg. 32 Keller). This
does not destroy or create the earth’s crust but is the major reason for all of
their earthquakes (pg.36 Keller). Furthermore, the fact that they are located
in the ring of fire is also a main contributor to their natural hazards.
Works
Cited: Keller, A. Edwards, Blodgett, H. Robert. Earths Process as Hazards, and Catastrophes.
Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. Pearson, 2012. Print.
Hi! AS you say, your country is in a difficult spot, between a subduction zone (Cocos plate from the West) and transform movement from faults north and south (not a plate boundary-that would be in Guatemala, Haiti, o Honduras). See link below. As you will see in the next weeks, you'll get some shaking and volcanic activity for sure-
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Out of all of the plate tectonics that we learned about this week I thought that the transform boundary was the most interesting. The way there is no addition or destruction of land, just the shifting at the boundary, I feel like this is the most unique form of movement. The country that I am learning about is also located in the ring of fire and I think it is just so interesting how people have been able to research different paths and tendencies in areas and determine what types of disasters can occur.
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