The document discusses earthquakes and tectonic plates. It describes how earthquakes occur when tectonic plates slip past each other, with the hypocenter being where it starts underground and the epicenter being where it emerges above ground. It provides details of the largest earthquake which was a magnitude 9.5 quake in Chile in 1960 that caused over 32,000 casualties and $500 million in repairs. It then lists the 249 known tectonic plates on Earth and notes that while scientists can estimate earthquake likelihood, earthquakes cannot be precisely predicted.

1. EARTHQUAKES

2. INTRODUCTION
• Earthquakes are very
dangerous especially
if you are on a high
building like the CTV
building that fell
down in the
Christchurch
earthquake.

3. TECTONIC PLATES
• Tectonic plates are
two plates that slip
together and make an
earthquake .The place
where the earthquake
starts is called the
hypocenter.The
location above the
surface is called the
epicenter.

4. LARGEST
EARTHQUAKE
• The first largest
earthquake was in chile.
• location:Was southern
chile.
• magnitude:9.5
• date May 29th 1960
• casualties:32,290
• cost of repairs $500
million
• Wow that’s allot of

5. ALL TECTONIC PLATES
IN THE WORLD
• There are 249
tectonic plates in the
world these are all of
them.
• African Plate
• Antarctic Plate
• Arabian Plate
• Australian Plate
• Caribbean Plate
• Cocos Plate
• Eurasian Plate
• Indian Plate
• Juan de Plate
• Nazi Plate
• North American Plate
• Pacific Plate
• Philippine Sea Plate
• Scotia Plate
• South American Plate
• ** Aegean Sea Plate (or Hellenic Plate)
◦ Altiplano Plate
◦ American Plate
◦ Anatolian Plate
◦ Plate
◦ Balmoral Reef Plate
◦ Banda Sea Plate

6. PREDICTDING
EARTHQUAKES
• No you can not predict
earthquakes. For example
scientist estimated that over 30
years san francisco bay area is
67% and 60% in southern
California.So that shows you
can’t predict earthquakes.
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7. Bibliography
• Websites
• www.guardian.co.uk/
http://
world/2005/mar/29/
tsunami2004.indonesia
• http://www.vtaide.com/png/
George/earthquake.htm
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