Ring of Fireeeee

earthquakes&volcanoes
Is there also a relationship between the plate boundaries of Earth and volcanoes? Yes there is. Were some volcanoes are on the map there are some earthquakes too. For example there are earthquakes and volcanoes all along the west coast on the whole North American continent.


boundries
Aleutian Islands: Ocean-continent convergent boundary
Cascades Volcanoes:Continent-continent convergent boundary
San Andreas Fault Zone:Ocean-continent convergent boundary

Plate Tectonics

The breakup of Pangea was 225 million years ago. The continental breakup that almost happened in Michigan occurred 1.1 billion years ago. The kind of rock that now fills the Keweenawan Rift is basalt. This happened during the Early Carboniferous period, 356 million years ago, Michigan was on the Equator at the time. The Mediterranean Mountains will be north of Africa in the future world. They say in 250 million years North America will be joined with South America and Africa.

http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072402466/student_view0/chapter19/animations_and_movies.html
2003 Physical Geography
http://www.geo.msu.edu/geogmich/rift_zone.html
Mid-Continental Rift Zone
http://www.scotese.com/earth.htm
Paleomap Project, Christopher R. Scotese 2002

Earthquakes

How many earthquakes have happened today?
Febuary 03, 2010- 10 Earthquakes
Most recent earthquake: California, Febuary 1st
Most earthquakes seem to happen in: California
Most earthquakes happen in South America around the Western coast.
As you go from west to east in South America the depths get deeper.

http://www.iris.washington.edu/servlet/eventserver/map.do- IRIS earthquake brower
http://www.iris.edu/seismon- Seismic Monitor