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The Peru-Chile

Trench

Involved Plates

3 World Events

Nazca Plate

South American Plate

-1868 Africa Tsunami: An event associated with a tsunami and was caused by an earthquake.

-1960 Valdivia earthquake: Largest earthquake ever recorded.

-1970 Ancash Earthquake: A 7.9 earthquake triggered a landslide which killed 68,000 people.

Possible Natural Disasters

Because the subduction of the Nazca Plate is directly beneath southern chile, earthquakes are extremely common, most being

very massive and dangerous. One of the

earthquakes(August 16,1868), caused a

huge tsunami shortly after.

Location

In between the Nazca Plate and the South American Plate.

Continental Drift

Peru-Chile Trench

-Continents moving overtime across earth's surface.

-Its affects the trench because it is the main reason that so many(approximately eighteen) large magnitude earthquakes have occured..

-These earthquakes are all massive, causing extreme damage.

THE END

Thomas McCoy

Christopher Paredes

Period 6

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