PLATE TECTONICS A UNIFYING CONCEPT FOR UNDERSTANDING EARTHQUAKES

PLATE TECTONICS A UNIFYING CONCEPT FOR UNDERSTANDING EARTHQUAKES AND VOLCANOES Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, University of North Carolina, USA

PLANET EARTH, A UNIQUE DYNAMIC PLANET

POSITION OF TECTONIC PLATES TWO EARTH DAYS AGO

POSITION OF TECTONIC PLATES NOW

SCHEMATIC MAP OF TECTONIC PLATES

EARTHQUAKES DEFINE PLATE BOUNDARIES: PACIFIC, EURASIAN, NA, SA, NASCA, CARIBBEAN, COCOS, AND PHILIPPINES PLATES

SUBDUCTION OF CONVERGING PLATES

NORTH AMERICAN AND PACIFIC PLATES

SAN ANDREAS FAULT: BOUNDARY OF NA AND PACIFIC PLATES

SAN ANDREAS FAULT: SO. CALIFORNIA

THE CARIBBEAN TECTONIC PLATE

NORTH AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN PLATE SUBDUCTION ZONE

PACIFIC, JUAN DE FUCA, AND NORTH AMERICA PLATES

FAULTS: COCOS PLATE SUBDUCTION ZONE

ARABIAN, AFRICAN, ANATOLIAN, AND EURASIAN PLATES

ARABIAN PLATE

DEAD SEA RIFT ZONE

FAULT MAP: TURKEY

COLLISION OF CONVERGING PLATES

AFRICA, ARABIAN, EURASIA, AND INDIAN PLATES

ANNEX 1: MODELING THE POSITIONS AND MOVEMENTS OF THE TECTONIC PLATES OVER TIME FROM 255 MILLION YEARS AGO TO 250 MILLION YEARS IN THE FUTURE

HEAT FLOW, CONVECTION CURRENTS POWER PLATE MOVEMENT

PLATE POSITIONS: LATE PERMIAN 255 MYA

PLATE POSITIONS: LATE JURASSIC 152 MYA

PLATE POSITIONS; LATE CRETACEOUS 94 MYA

PLATE POSITIONS: MIOCENE 14 MYA

PLATE POSITIONS: LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM 18, 000 YA

PLATE POSITIONS: MODERN WORLD

FUTURE WORLD: + 50 MY

FUTURE WORLD: + 250 MY