Tectonic plates cause many different
natural disasters that occur on our planet. When the plates move,
they tend to create stress between them. This stress, once built up
can be relieved in one catastrophic event
that changes the face of the globe. Some of this can be seen in this
picture of the World. The main subduction zones are clearly seen
in this photo. Around where the December 26 Tsunami happened,
there is a light blue outline and there is a ridge there that was
caused by this last earthquake.
Here is a diagram of what the a subduction zone looks like. As
you can see, the plate tends to go under another p
late. There are three types of
plate-plate interactions based upon relative motion: convergent, where
plates collide, divergent, where plates separate, and transform motion,
where plates simply slide past each other.
This depics what happened on December 26 2005. It shows how the
when the continential shelf shifted in the earthquake, it droped the
sae floor and created a wave. It shows how as the wave gets
closer and closer to lane, it begins to pick up its speed and its
height begins to rise based on the magnitude of the force. This
This is a diagram of how much the earth
has moved with in the last Million years. It shows the movement
of the tectonic plates and how some of the movements caused the
underwater sea ridges we have today and how much they moved which
causdes the massive earthquakes we have today. They are the
reason for tsunamis today.
