Can u tell me about the Loma Prieta earthquake like what the names of the plates were?
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the pacific plate is the most western plate that runs almost Thur the middle of San Fran & is part of the san andreas fualt
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the tectonic plates that shift happen  underground, if your lucky to see a plate shift at ground level your truly lucky, these plate shifts cause earthquakes so please be careful.
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http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/eqinthenews/2006/usubal/\nMagnitude 6.7 - NEAR THE COAST OF CENTRAL PERU\n2006 October 20. Located along plate boundary where Nazca plate is being subducted beneath the South American plate.\n\nhttp://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/eqinthenews/2006/usrgaw/\nMagnitude 6.1 - GUERRERO, MEXICO\n2006 August 11. In western Mexico, where Cocos plate is subducting beneath Central America/Mexico.\n\nhttp://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/states/oregon/history.php\nAugust 18, 1961, earthquake caused minor damage at Albany and Lebanon Oregon, south of the 1957 center. Magnitude 4.5 shock.   Location in western Oregon above region where Juan de Fuca plate is subducting beneath North American plate.
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For a good outline of what happened, see:\nhttp://quakeinfo.ucsd.edu/~gabi/erth15/lecture09/vesuvius.html\n\nThis appears to give some pretty good information regarding it also:\nhttp://www.vesuvioinrete.it/e_storia.htm
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Depends on what intensity earthquakes you're talking about, but... according to the NEIC (National Earthquake Information Center), there were 42 earthquakes ranging in magnitude from 2.5 to 5.3 on the 24th of April, 2006.\nSee the first link below for a listing and their longitude and latitude, and the second link for a world map.  You can run your own searches if you want from http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/epic/epic_global.html.
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Common Myths about Earthquakes\n\nQ: Will California eventually fall off into the ocean?\n\nA: No. The San Andreas Fault System, which crosses California from the Salton Sea in the south to Cape Mendocino in the north, is the boundary between the Pacific Plate and North American Plate. The Pacific Plate is moving northwest with respect to the North American Plate at approximately 46 millimeters per year (the rate your fingernails grow). The strike-slip earthquakes on the San Andreas Fault are a result of this plate motion. The plates are moving horizontally past one another, so California is not going to fall into the ocean. However, Los Angeles and San Francisco will one day be adjacent to one another!
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http://www.jsps.go.jp/english/e-asia/ronpaku/ab/INDONESIA1.html\nhttp://www.searchanddiscovery.com/documents/mcclay/index.htm\nhttp://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/world/indonesia/images/eq_density.gif\nhttp://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Maps/region/Australia.php\n\nGoogle that shiz yo!
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check this link . if you want more log on to google.com. \n\nhttp://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/tsunami/Peru01.html
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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\nCurrent minor plates:\n\nAdriatic Plate \nAmurian Plate \nAnatolian Plate \nBismark Microplate \nBurma Plate \nCaribbean Plate \nCaroline Plate \nEast American Plate \nEaster Microplate \nExplorer Plate \nFiji Microplates \nGalapagos Microplate \nGorda Plate \nHellenic Plate \nIberian Plate \nIranian Plate \nJuan de Fuca Plate \nJuan Fernandez Microplate \nOkhotsk Plate \nRivera Microplate \nSomali Plate \nSouth Sandwich Plate \nSunda Plate \nTonga Plate \n\nAncient plates:\nFarallon Plate \nKula Plate
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Absoutly, there is a ridge subduction zone off the pacific coast that is moving at a good clip.  We know through laser tomography, that the surface of this subduction zone isn't as smooth as many other fault lines.  We know what will happen as soon as it 'buckles', a huge earthquake, followed, of course by a sub surface wave, making a tsunami.\n\nAs to when, no clue.  The plate at the subduction zone isn't moving at a constant clip, but random.  So hard to say.  Will it happen? Absoutly, when? Dunno.
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In google search for :\n\nUSGS plate tectonics Maps\n\nOne good answer is:\n\nhttp://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Glossary/PlateTectonics/Graphics/framework2.html
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Check to following link to know more about Tsunami.\n\nIt's not possible to accurately predict plate tectonics  currently.
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back in the early 19th century a major earthquake occurred that was centered in new madrid, missouri. the entire middle section of the US is considered to be in the zone.
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http://www.volcano.si.edu/reports/usgs/index.cfm
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Most of Central America and the Caribbean Basin rests on the relatively motionless Caribbean Plate. The Pacific Ocean floor, however, is being carried northeast by the underlying motion of the Cocos Plate. Ocean floor material is relatively dense; when it strikes the lighter granite rocks of Central America, the ocean floor is forced down under the land mass, creating the deep Middle America Trench that lies off the coast of El Salvador. The subduction of the Cocos Plate accounts for the frequency of earthquakes near the coast. As the rocks constituting the ocean floor are forced down, they melt, and the molten material pours up through weaknesses in the surface rock, producing volcanoes and geysers.\n\nNorth of El Salvador, Mexico and most of Guatemala are riding on the westward-moving North American Plate that butts against the northern edge of the stationary Caribbean Plate in southern Guatemala. The grinding action of these two plates creates a fault, similar to the San Andreas in California, that runs the length of the valley of the Rio Motagua in Guatemala. Motion along this fault is the source of earthquakes in northernmost El Salvador,\nThe southern range of mountains is actually a discontinuous chain of more than twenty volcanoes, clustered into five groups. The westernmost group, near the Guatemalan border, contains Izalco and Santa Ana, which at 2,365 meters is the highest point in El Salvador. Between the cones lie alluvial basins and rolling hills eroded from ash deposits. The volcanic soil is rich, and much of El Salvador's coffee is planted on these slopes.
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That depends on the plates, and it varies.  You can't really say US gets the most because Asia has had just as bad earthquakes in different regions over time.  \n\nI found a map of the unstable plates... pretty informative ... check it out:\n\nhttp://library.thinkquest.org/21988/earthquake/earthquake.htm
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In terms of loss of human life the deadliest was on January 23rd 1556 in Shaanxi, China. It measured 8 on the richter scale. An estimated 830,000 people were killed during the quake.\n\nThe largest recorded earthquake occured in Chile in South America on May 22nd 1960. This earthquake was enormous at 9.5 of the richter scale. The epicenter of the earthquake (the point on the earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake) was 60 meters down below the ocean floor about 100 miles off the coast of Chile out in the Pacific. \n\nThe nearby towns of Valdivia and Puerto Montt suffered devastating damage because of their closeness to the center of such a massive quake. The loss of human life was not as bad as it could have been because there were large foreshocks that sent people into the streets. \n\nThe damage from the quake was not limited to the nearby shores of Chile. Enormous tsunamis caused by the quake, traveled for thousands of miles across the Pacific Ocean, reaching the shores of Hawaii, the Philippines, and even Japan devastating everything in their path.\n\nThe earthquake that occured on December 26 2004  was recorded as a 9.3 on the Richter scale which was just below what had occured in Chile. This one resulted in 275,000 deaths. \n\nHope this helped you out a little.