ESS105H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Mass Wasting, Meteor Crater, Prince William Sound
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Earthquakes produces several reflect plate tectonics causes heat from inside earth experiences. 54 - tectonics: volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis disasters related to plate tectonics volcanoes: Explosivity related to viscosity of magma (as determined by magma composition and tectonic setting) St. helens dangers: lava, ash, pyroclastic ows, lahar (mud ow) Merapi sound from krakatoa eruption of 23 aug 1883 could be heard 4,500 km away (winchester, 2002) hazard map for mt. Merapi could be heard 4,500 km away (winchester, 2002) tectonics: volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis hazard map for mt. Rainier website: http://www. volcano. si. edu earthquakes: earthquakes of magnitude 9 or above on record: Deep ones at subduction zones tectonics: volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis earthquakes of magnitude 9 or above on record: 1960 05 22 - chile - m 9. 5. 1964 03 28 - prince william sound, alaska - m 9. 2. 2004 12 26 - sumatra-andaman islands - m 9. 1. 2011 03 11 - near the east coast of honshu, japan - m 9. 0.
