Re: Volcanoes & Earthquakes

From: Charani (me_at_privacy.net)
Date: 02/27/05 

Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 10:49:17 +0000

On 19 Feb 2005 13:58:49 -0800, Stuart wrote:

> You can get tremors almost anywhere.
>
> The Earth's surface is broken up a like a puzzle. Some pieces are big,
> like the size of North America, and others are much smaller like the
> size of Texas. These pieces, which scientists call plates, are
> continually moving. Each of these plates have rough boundaries with
> other plates and these boundaries are called "faults". As the plates
> move earthquakes occur on the faults. 99% of all earthquakes occur on
> the plate boundaries or faults.

Thank you for the explanation and my apologies for not responding
earlier. Your post didn't appear on either of my servers for some
obscure reason so I've had to resub on one. I saw it via Jo's post.

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