Please Help ..? What Exactly Happened In China (Earthquake)??x?

Question

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Geography Homework

Answer 1

The earthquake in Chine was caused by tectonic plates to collide, deep in the earth creating massive shock waves at the epicentre, 8 miles under the ground, to vibrate the earths crust

Answer 2

- 7.9-magnitude quake hit May 15, 2008

- affected 10 million people

- killing at least tens of thousands- over 65 th

- two-stage quake - lasted about 2 minutes

- epicenter — only 6 miles underground (very shallow) so more destructive

- ground very hard in the region so waves traveled far

Would you believe that:

- some believe it was a conspiracy to take the heat off re the Tibet issue and the Olympic games - and that it was caused by underground nukes

- other say the 3 rivers dam with all that weight on the plates may have been the cause

- has even been mention (Sharon Stone) that the earthquake was because of bad karma for Tibet

- may be caused by glaciers melting caused in turn by global warming - with glacier meltdown comes weight redistribution which may shift plates  - this has caused earthquakes before

Most believed reason

— northward movement of the Indian plate into the SE Asia plate continues - the Himalayas still growing, being built and elevated, the folding of the surrounding ranges, including those in the Sichuan province of China CAUSE earthquakes -edge of one plate is forced under another - a process called subduction