Earthquake chain in Chile (Google earth)
Viewed from the successive events in the near future in America (south), I little thought that America will now turn more to get earthquakes. In a sense, the plates around the America become active including the Pacific Plate, Nazca Plate, South American plate, Caribbean plates, and North American plates themselves. If we look at the map, Chile earthquake occurred due to the release of energy from the Nazca plate collision (as well as Cocos) and South American plates. The meeting line of these continents to meet very close to the South American coast along Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Columbia, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Guatemala, to Mexico and the United States. Another area that began to active releasing energy to the occurrence of earthquake is Caribbean plate that resulted Haiti earthquake last month.
Active continental plates in the world
(see. Chile and other western Latin American countries are very close to the trench)
The intense of earthquake in America is certainly related to the moving continental plates which are connected to one another. Like mosaics puzzle game, shifting one place will result in vacancies in other places. Well, these mosaics are now playing in America. Are other parts of the world will be relatively safe from a big earthquake? Wallahualam bis showab…
