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EARTHQUAKES

Major Earthquakes for 60s and 70s.
In the map have plotted the major earthquakes for the 60s and 70s. The major earthquake
areas are in the area around the Pacific Ocean. Most of the earthquakes happened at these
areas and for this reason they call it "Pacific Ring of Fire". Earthquakes may occur
anywhere, even in the middle of very stable continental areas. Most of the earthquakes
take place at the ridge of pacific plate that are the Eurasian plate, Philippine plate,
Bismark plate, and Caroline plate. Most of the earthquakes occurred at 70s than 60s. In
this decade (70s) a lot of earthquakes happened almost at the same point. With these
results we can figure it out that a lot of earthquakes are going to follow at these
areas. Some of these areas that consider them self major earthquakes areas are the
Solomon islands, Indonesia, Philippines, Taiwan, Japan, Fiji, Mexico, Guatemala, Costa
Rica, Panama, Colombia, Equator and Peru. Especially at the Fuji, Solomon Islands, Japan,
Philippines and Equator a lot of major earthquakes occurred at these areas. In these
areas we have a lot of major earthquakes because the types of the boundaries is
convergent. This means the places are coming together and through these process a lot of
earthquakes hit these areas.
Beside the Pacific Ring of Fire there are some others major earthquakes areas that are
far away from each other. The different between these two is that the earthquake doesn't
occur at the same point or near to this point like the Pacific Ring of Fire. 
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