In Canada there is two plate boundaries. One is on the south west coast and is a convergent and the other runs up the Canadian coast and is divergent. The plate is called Juan De Fuca Plate. I found this on page 30 in our book. The Juan De Fuca is responsible for many of the northern California quakes and all of the volcanoes in Oregon and Washington!
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Natural Hazards
By:Keller/Devecchio pg.30
Geomaps.usgs.gov
And researchers these days are paying a lot fo attention to the Juan de Fuca portion of it. Lots of tension accumulated with possible release of energy one day as a underwater earthquake-tsunami!
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http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one
And researchers these days are paying a lot fo attention to the Juan de Fuca portion of it. Lots of tension accumulated with possible release of energy one day as a underwater earthquake-tsunami!
ReplyDeleteBelow a read for you (next week you'll have lots to blog about):
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one
It shows how connected the inner workings of the planet are if a fault above the United States is a contributor to the earthquakes far away in California. Being a divergent boundary, it makes sense that this plate is responsible for influence of volcanoes in Washington and Oregon since divergent boundaries spread apart and molten lava fills the space opened.
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