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Seismicity and Plate Tectonics

Seismicity and Plate Tectonics. Caribbean Training Course in Seismology and Tsunami Warnings St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago June 25-30, 2007. Christa G. von Hillebrandt-Andrade Puerto Rico Seismic Network, UPRM. Our Dynamic Earth. Global Distribution of Tsunamis. From NGDC.

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Seismicity and Plate Tectonics

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  1. Seismicity and Plate Tectonics Caribbean Training Course in Seismology and Tsunami Warnings St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago June 25-30, 2007 Christa G. von Hillebrandt-Andrade Puerto Rico Seismic Network, UPRM

  2. Our Dynamic Earth

  3. Global Distribution of Tsunamis From NGDC

  4. Global Distribution of Earthquakes

  5. Global Seismicity and Tectonic Plates

  6. Continental Drift Continental drift was first proposed in 1912 by Alfred Wegener, a German Astronomer and Professor.

  7. Fossil Evidence Mesosaurus is a freshwater reptile which could not possibly swim across the ocean from South America to Africa.

  8. Fossil Evidence

  9. Evidence from Rocks

  10. Evidence from Paleoclimates/Glaciation The orientation of rocks on several continents become consistent with those of a common ice-cap when they are re-assembled.

  11. Plate Tectonics Evidence: Age of the Ocean Floor Keller, 2002

  12. Evidence: Magnetic Striping From Kious and Tilling, USGS

  13. Evidence for Plate Tectonics:Seismicity

  14. Distribution of Seismicity Worldwide Líneas de Costa, Límites Políticos

  15. Circum-Caribbean Seismicity(1973-2006) NEIC (2006)

  16. Age of Hawaiian volcanoes: Evidence for Plate Tectonics

  17. Evidence for Tectonic Plate Theory: Earth Structure

  18. Plate Tectonic Forces USGS - http://earthquake.usgs.gov/

  19. Break up of Pangaea Source: Dietmar Muller, Sydney University

  20. Lithospheric Plates

  21. Global Plate Tectonic Activity

  22. GPS Vectors in the Northeastern Caribbean

  23. "Plate tectonic maps and Continental drift animations by C. R. Scotese,PALEOMAP Project (www.scotese.com)"

  24. "Plate tectonic maps and Continental drift animations by C. R. Scotese,PALEOMAP Project (www.scotese.com)"

  25. Plate Tectonic Boundaries

  26. Forces and Deformation Forces Ductile Deformation Brittle Deformation

  27. Divergent Boundary Copywrite Tasa Graphic Arts

  28. Divergent Plate Boundaries Fuerzas Tensionales FallamientoNormal Océano Falla de Transformación Normal and Strike Slip Faults

  29. The Evolution of a Rift East African Rift Red Sea Atlantic Ocean Copywrite Tasa Graphic Arts

  30. Continental Rift

  31. Convergent BoundariesOceanic Lithosphere Subducting under Oceanic Lithosphere

  32. Convergent Plate BoundaryOcean-Continent Océano Continente Magma Ascendente

  33. Subduction as Generation Zones for Tsunamis

  34. Himalayan Orogeny

  35. Convergent BoundariesContinent-Continent Copywrite Tasa Graphic Arts

  36. Transform Boundaries

  37. Transform Boundaries

  38. Strike-Slip Offsets Wallace Creek San Andreas Fault Wallace Creek

  39. Map of Tectonic Plates

  40. Caribbean Tectonic Setting From ten Brink, USGS

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