Wednesday, October 26, 2011

10/26/2011

1.) What are the names of the two tectonic plates which are interacting to cause earthquakes in Turkey. 

 a) The Arabian Plate and the Eurasian Plates were the two plates that caused many earthquakes in Turkey over the past few days.

2.) What kind of plate boundary is it? 

a) It is a convergent plate boundary.

3.) What is the most powerful magnitude earthquake that has struck Turkey in the past 100 years?

a)The most powerful magnitude earthquake that has struck Turkey in the past 100 years was a Magnitude 7.8 earthquake in 1939.

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