Type of plate diagram Hazards Examples.
boundary
Destructive Oceanic and Nazca plate forced
(conivergent contnental plates under south American.
or tensional) moive together. The Nazca plate is an
Oceanic forced under oceanic tectonic plate
less dense contnental. in the south-eastern
Fricton melts oceanic Pacific Ocean that
causing earthquakes. shares both
Magma rises up conivergent and
through the cracks in diivergent boundaries,
the Earths crust. contains three
seamount chains,
oiverrides four
hotspots, and is
responsible for the
creaton of the Andean
orogeny.
Collision Two contnental plates The Mid Atlantc ridge
collide. Neither plate is has caused
forced under the earthquakes in Iceland.
other, so both are The largest so far had a
forced up. Fricton magnitude of 3,8 (at
causes earthquakes. 13:33 UTC) and 3,4 (at
16:58 UTC).
Constructive Occurs when plates Iceland was formed as
moive apart. Volcanoes the result of the sea
are formed as magma bed of the north
wells to fill the holes. Atlantc spreading. The
Eiventually a new crust North American plate
is formed. moived away from the
Eurasian plate.
conserivative Plates slide past each San Andreas fault,
other in opposite California. 1906 san
directons or the same Francisco earthquake.
directon but diferent On April 18 with an
speeds. Fricton is estmated moment
eiventually oivercome magnitude of 7.8 and a
and the plates slide maximum intensity.
past each other in a Deivastatng fires soon
sudden moivement. broke out in the city
The shockwaives and lasted for seiveral
produced cause days. As a result, about
earthquakes. 3,000 people died and
oiver 80% of the city of
San Francisco was
destroyed.
boundary
Destructive Oceanic and Nazca plate forced
(conivergent contnental plates under south American.
or tensional) moive together. The Nazca plate is an
Oceanic forced under oceanic tectonic plate
less dense contnental. in the south-eastern
Fricton melts oceanic Pacific Ocean that
causing earthquakes. shares both
Magma rises up conivergent and
through the cracks in diivergent boundaries,
the Earths crust. contains three
seamount chains,
oiverrides four
hotspots, and is
responsible for the
creaton of the Andean
orogeny.
Collision Two contnental plates The Mid Atlantc ridge
collide. Neither plate is has caused
forced under the earthquakes in Iceland.
other, so both are The largest so far had a
forced up. Fricton magnitude of 3,8 (at
causes earthquakes. 13:33 UTC) and 3,4 (at
16:58 UTC).
Constructive Occurs when plates Iceland was formed as
moive apart. Volcanoes the result of the sea
are formed as magma bed of the north
wells to fill the holes. Atlantc spreading. The
Eiventually a new crust North American plate
is formed. moived away from the
Eurasian plate.
conserivative Plates slide past each San Andreas fault,
other in opposite California. 1906 san
directons or the same Francisco earthquake.
directon but diferent On April 18 with an
speeds. Fricton is estmated moment
eiventually oivercome magnitude of 7.8 and a
and the plates slide maximum intensity.
past each other in a Deivastatng fires soon
sudden moivement. broke out in the city
The shockwaives and lasted for seiveral
produced cause days. As a result, about
earthquakes. 3,000 people died and
oiver 80% of the city of
San Francisco was
destroyed.
