Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Tectonic processes and
hazards
- Locations at risk
- Global distribution
- Earthquakes
- Often found on plate boundaries
- Around 70% of all earthquakes are in
the "Ring of Fire"
- Most powerful on convergent and
conservative boundaries
- Distribution of earthquakes reveals a pattern
- Oceanic fracture zone - along mid-ocean ridges
- Continental fracture zones - along mountain ranges
- Intra-plate earthquakes can occur on old fault lines
- Volcanoes
- Plate boundary
- Hot spots and magma plumes
- Plate movement
- Processes and
hazards
- Hazards and disasters
- Management