There are a number of hazards caused by plate tectonics including earthquakes ... moves out as a series of giant ripples. This is a tsunami. Just a metre high, but a hundred miles from front ...

These earthquakes release huge amounts of energy as tectonic ... went down after the Tohoku earthquake and found not at all what everybody expected - which is that actually the tsunami was ...

Last Thursday's Tsunami Warning was scary for everyone ... tsunamis are triggered by underwater earthquakes at a subduction zone, where tectonic plates move up or down on top of each other.

Tectonic hazards can destroy buildings, infrastructure and cause deaths. Earthquakes and tsunami – WJEC Earthquakes are caused by the release of built-up pressure at plate boundaries.

June 28 (UPI) --A large, magnitude-7.2 earthquake struck Peru early Friday morning, but authorities canceled a possible tsunami alert after a few ... of two neighboring tectonic plates in what ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) initially warned of possible tsunami waves of up to one ... Ring of Fire Japan sits on top of four major tectonic plates along the western edge of the Pacific ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) warned of possible tsunami waves of up ... between two tectonic plates. The advisory was lifted after a week. The JMA said Monday that it was probing possible ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) warned of possible tsunami waves of up ... between two tectonic plates. The advisory was lifted after a week. The JMA said on Jan 13 that it was probing ...