What the cause of the earthquake in China? (Type of Plate Boundary)?

Question

This is for my geography homework.

Answer 1

China is located in the Pacific ring of fire an earthquake pone zone.China is on the Pacific Continental plate which is rubbing against the Atlantic plate boundaries which in turn causes earthquakes

Answer 2

SHIFTING PLATES, JUST GOOGLE IT

Answer 3

earthquakes are caused by two plates colliding or slideing agnest each other........i just did this on friday in my Junior Cert geog exam!

Answer 4

The China earthquake was an intraplate event, about 500 km from the nearest plate boundary and the mechanism indicates that it was a thrust type event caused by compression across the fault.

The fault rupture in the earthquake was at least 150 km long, a northeast trending arcuate fault clearly visible on satellite photographs. Aftershocks indicate that it initiated at the southwest end of the fault and propagated towards the northeast.

Below is a link to a great site which will give you much more info and a diagram:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/eqin...