Describe Seattle, WA on its lithospheric plate, including the name of the plate and any nearby plates.?
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Seattle is at the edge of the North American Plate, very close to the Juan de Fuca Plate and the Pacific Plate.  I believe the North American Plate is converging with the Juan de Fuca Plate and the Pacific Plate and Juan de Fuca Plate are diverging.\n\nhttp://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/volc/tectonics.html
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a) Earth's surface is made up of about a dozen enormous slabs, or plates. The slow movement of these plates across the surface is called continental drift, or plate tectonics. \n\nb) the outermost level of the land or sea; "earthquakes originate far below the surface"; "three quarters of the Earth's surface is covered by water" \n\nc) Is a kind of layer  (a relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another )
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The website below will take you to a well-illustrated USGS pub on plate tectonics. It is called: This Dynamic Earth--the story of plate tectonics. By Kious and Tilling.\nBecause it is a government publication, it isn't copyrighted, but you should give appropriate credit if you reuse the figures, etc.\n\nVolcanoes are not randomly distributed over the Earth's surface. Most are concentrated on the edges of continents, along island chains, or beneath the sea forming long mountain ranges. More than half of the world's active volcanoes above sea level encircle the Pacific Ocean to form the circum-Pacific "Ring of Fire." In the past 25 years, scientists have developed a theory -- called plate tectonics -- that explains the locations of volcanoes and their relationship to other large-scale geologic features.-From: Brantley, 1994, Volcanoes of the United States: USGS General Interest Publication.   \nThe ring of fire is associated with convergent plate boundaries.
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Not real sure what you want to do, but, go here;\nhttp://quake.wr.usgs.gov/research/deformation/modeling/eqmodel.html
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1. aa\n2. fissure\n3. vulcan\n4. tectonic\n5. pacific (also called the "pacific rim")
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The Earth is formed of several layers that have very different physical and chemical properties. The outer layer, which averages about 70 kilometers in thickness, consists of about a dozen large, irregularly shaped plates that slide over, under and past each other on top of the partly molten inner layer. Most earthquakes occur at the boundaries where the plates meet. In fact, the locations of earthquakes and the kinds of ruptures they produce help scientists define the plate boundaries. \nThere are three types of plate boundaries: spreading zones, transform faults, and subduction zones. At spreading zones, molten rock rises, pushing two plates apart and adding new material at their edges. Most spreading zones are found in oceans; for example, the North American and Eurasian plates are spreading apart along the mid-Atlantic ridge. Spreading zones usually have earthquakes at shallow depths (within 30 kilometers of the surface).  \n\nTransform faults are found where plates slide past one another. An example of a transform-fault plate boundary is the San Andreas fault, along the coast of California and northwestern Mexico. Earthquakes at transform faults tend to occur at shallow depths and form fairly straight linear patterns. \n\nSubduction zones are found where one plate overrides, or subducts, another, pushing it downward into the mantle where it melts. An example of a subduction-zone plate boundary is found along the northwest coast of the United States, western Canada, and southern Alaska and the Aleutian Islands. Subduction zones are characterized by deep-ocean trenches, shallow to deep earthquakes, and mountain ranges containing active volcanoes.\n\nEarthquakes can also occur within plates, although plate-boundary earthquakes are much more common. Less than 10 percent of all earthquakes occur within plate interiors. As plates continue to move and plate boundaries change over geologic time, weakened boundary regions become part of the interiors of the plates. These zones of weakness within the continents can cause earthquakes in response to stresses that originate at the edges of the plate or in the deeper crust. The New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-1812 and the 1886 Charleston earthquake occurred within the North American plate.
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Pangaea is the name of the original super-continent.\n\nPlate tectonics describes how the continents move.\n\nRead here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate_tectonics
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Was it really necessary to post this question here? You couldn't look it up using a web search tool?\n\nWikipedia lists the current major plates:\n\nAfrican Plate\nAntarctic Plate\nArabian Plate\nAustralian Plate\nCocos Plate\nEurasian Plate\nIndo-Australian Plate\nIndian Plate\nNazca Plate\nNorth American Plate\nPacific Plate\nPhilippine Plate\nScotia Plate\nSouth American Plate\n\nand also gives a map. You can look and decide what plates are major enough to be on your list of 7.
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~d1hossain is close.  What you need to check out is "tectonic" plates and tectonic mechanics/physics.   You might also want to look into seismology, volcanism, and diastrophism.  As for the relative danger zones, you might want to look into tsunamis and other seismic displacements.  "Nearness" to a fault is relative in the world of geology.  Few places on earth are not "near" a fault and safe from the effects of a cataclysmic underslide, as evidenced by the Rockies and the Himalayas.\nThat's all of your homework I'll do for you.  If it isn't homework, and you are asking out of genuine curiosity, all the more reason to do your own reasearch.  It's called learning.
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Go to the United States Geological Survey website at www.usgs.gov  They have a list of the most recent earthquakes. It's kind of a fun site to see anyway.
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http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=techtonic+plates&btnG=Google+Search\n\nHope this helps, it will give you all the info you need
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Plate tectonics (from the Greek word for "one who constructs and destroys", τεκτων, tektōn) is a theory of geology developed to explain the phenomenon of continental drift and is currently the theory accepted by the vast majority of scientists working in this area. In the theory of plate tectonics the outermost part of the Earth's interior is made up of two layers: the lithosphere comprising the crust and the solidified uppermost part of the mantle. Below the lithosphere lies the asthenosphere which comprises the inner viscous part of the mantle. The mantle behaves like a superheated and extremely viscous liquid.
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An earthquake is the shaking of the ground caused by an abrupt shift of rock along a fracture in the Earth, called a fault. Within seconds, an earthquake releases stress that has slowly accumulated within the rock, sometimes over hundreds of years. ... \nThe size of an earthquake is indicated by a number called its magnitude. Magnitude is calculated from a measurement of either the amplitude or the duration of specific types of recorded seismic waves. Magnitude is determined from measurements made from seismograms and not on reports of shaking or interpretations of building damage. ... The intensity of and earthquake is a measure of the amount of ground shaking at a particular site, and it is determined from reports of human reaction to shaking, damage done to structures, and other effects. ... \n\nEarth scientists believe that most earthquakes are caused by slow movements inside the Earth that push against the Earth's brittle, relatively thin outer layer, causing the rocks to break suddenly. This outer layer is fragmented into a number of pieces, called plates. Most earthquakes occur at the boundaries of these plates. In Washington State, the small Juan de Fuca plate off the coast of Washington, Oregon, and northern California is slowly moving eastward beneath a much larger plate that includes both the North American continent the land beneath part of the Atlantic Ocean. Plate motions in the Pacific Northwest result in shallow earthquakes widely distributed over Washington and deep earthquakes in the western parts of Washington and Oregon. The movement of the Juan de Fuca plate beneath the North America plate is in many respects similar to the movements of plates in South America, Mexico, Japan, and Alaska, where the world's largest earthquakes occur. ...
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Like pauliegone said, the lithosphere does in a way seperate the crust from the mantle.  The tectonis plates (crust) are supported by this semisolid layer.  However, the lithosphere is considered, by some scientists, part of the mantle.  So, it depends on which scientists you believe, although I believe that pauliegone is correct.
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It's C), inner, outer, mantle, crust
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http://www.gly.uga.edu/railsback/BS/BS-Loa.html\n\nA Basalt building in Loa, Utah\n\nhttp://www.gly.uga.edu/railsback/BS/BS-Arco.html\n\nGym in Arco, Idaho
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Here ya go buddy:\n\nhttp://maps.yahoo.com/dd_result?newaddr=&taddr=&csz=seattle%2C+wa&country=us&tcsz=olympia%2C+wa&tcountry=us&oerr=3005&terr=3005