- Transform plates: how it happens
- Two continental plates slide past each other.
- As they do so, they cause tremendous stress to build up.
- The build up stress is then released, which often causes a violent earthquake.
- Occurred in 1906, in san francisco.
- Between the pacific plate and north american plate.
- The movement of plates moved 7m over a period of 1 minute.
- Earthquakes
- Vibration in the earth’s crust
- Sudden release of stored energy in the rocks near the fault lines.
- tsunami
- Large sea waves
- Caused by:
- Movement of sea floor
- Underwater eruption
- Landslides on land & sea
- Volcanoes
- A landform
- Formed by the eruption magma from the mantle onto the earth’s surface
- Active
- Currently erupting
- expect to erupt
- Dormant
- Currently inactive
- May erupt in the future
- Extinct
- No current seismic activity
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