Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Earthquake Day 1

Where Earthquakes more generally tend to happen are on the boundaries of tectonic plates. Specifically they are all around the rings of fire that lays in in the pacific ocean. Because of the volcanoes in the ring of fire and when they go off they cause earthquakes. This area is called the ring of fire. The closest earthquake to Manitou springs is in Denver and people in Manitou springs would not be able to feel it, also it would have to shake a lot more for it to be a magnitude 1. in a magnitude 1 there is more energy than the one in Denver. One earthquake that has happened in the last seven days is one in the Atlantic ocean East of the Kuril Islands. This earthquake was a 7.4 on the ricter scale.





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