Sentences with phrase «eurasian plate»

These countries lie on or near the northern edge of the Arabian and Indian Plates that are colliding with the southern margin of the Eurasian Plate (see the figure, panel A).

Since then roughly 1,100 people have died in earthquakes each year in the western Americas and Carribean, compared to 8,900 / year along the southern edge of the Eurasian plate.

The quake struck at the intersection of the most vigorous collision of continental plates on the planet, where the Indian continental plate smashes into the Eurasian plate and dives beneath it.

[12] The Himalayas» formation started about 70 million years ago when the Indo - Australian Plate collided with the Eurasian Plate, and the Himalayas are still rising by about 5 mm per year because the Indo - Australian plate is still moving at 67 mm / year.

Though not as frequent as in the Pacific and Indian oceans, tsunamis also occur in the Mediterranean, mainly due to earthquakes generated when the African plate slides underneath the Eurasian plate.

I thought Japan was part of the Eurasian plate, not the North American plate.

In the north, the Pacific plate is sliding underneath the North American plate, while to the south, the Eurasian plate is riding over the Philippine Sea plate.

This is also supported by the fact that the fracture zone of the last strong earthquake in the region, in 1999, ended precisely in this area — probably at the same structure, which has been impeding the progressive shift of the Anatolian plate in the south against the Eurasian plate in the north since 1766 and building up pressure.

It's a part of the world that is prone to earthquakes, as the Indian plate makes its incremental, sticky descent beneath the Eurasian plate.

The Tohoku - Oki earthquake occurred in a «subduction zone,» a boundary between two tectonic plates where one plate is diving beneath another — in this case, the Pacific plate dives beneath the Eurasian plate just east of Japan.

Sachiko Tanaka of the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention in Tsukuba, Japan, studied 1126 quakes that happened along the Sumatran fault, where the Eurasian plate slides below the Indo - Australian plate, between 1976 and 2008.

Tectonically it is on a small separate plate together with most of Turkey, it is separate from Eurasian plate, and doesn't belong to the African plate.

However, as the Indian and Eurasian plates continued to collide and the mountain range pushed northward, it began impinging on the river.

As the North American and Eurasian plates drift apart, the Atlantic Ocean between them widens, also changing its shape.

Not exact matches

As far as most European politicians are concerned, countries are European not only by being situated in the western part of the Eurasian continental plate, but also when they are democratic, social - capitalist, secular and value human rights.

Set just north of Thingvallavatn, Iceland's largest lake, the park lies in a rift valley formed where the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates meet.

ANOTHER huge earthquake rocked Nepal this week, but it has released only some of the energy stored up along the boundary between the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates.

It marks the boundary between the Eurasian and Anatolian tectonic plates, which move relative to each other at a speed of around 2 cm per year.

The Arabian and Eurasian tectonic plates collide offshore of Pakistan, forming a subduction zone, but today's earthquake was onshore and mostly strike - slip — each side of the fault moved horizontally.

After the MSC was discovered in the 1970s, the early theory was that movements of the African, Arabian and Eurasian tectonic plates had led to the Mediterranean becoming landlocked.

Named after Dudley Foster, pilot of the US Navy submersible Alvin, who collected the first specimen, this tiny jelly is common near the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, an ocean - floor dividing line that separates the North American tectonic plate from the Eurasian, running south from Iceland down to the Azores.

Þingvellir is famous for its scuba diving activities which you can partake and check out yourself the only place in the world where you can witness the separation between the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates.

In my hunt for the Northern Lights, my first stop was Iceland; a fascinating country with many beautiful natural sights such as the cascading Gullfoss Waterfalls, the rift between the Eurasian and North American tectonic plates, the spurting Great Geysir, Humpback, Minke and Blue whales in the bay of Reykjavik, and geothermal pools and spas such as the Blue Lagoon.

It was last seen near the ocean bordering the Eurasian tectonic plate, vanishing in its midst as if a mirage.