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Plate Tectonics and associated risks - Coggle Diagram
Plate Tectonics and associated risks
Vocabulary :
a plate : une plaque
earthquake : séisme
subducted : subductée
Trench = pit : une fosse
Boundary : frontière
Ridge : dorsale
Up Wells : remontées/ jaillire
infer : déduire
torn away : déchiré
Fault : faille
Shallow : superficiel
Slope : pente
Slab : dale/ bloc/ plaque
Crisis : catastrophe
“Stuck” : bloquer
Depths : profondeur
Over the years : au cours des années
Setting : paramètres
Fears : peur, craintes
Swarm : large quantity or amount
Likelihood : probabilité
Contingency : contingence/ éventualité
Slide : glisser - sliding : coulissant
Warn : avertir
Tremor : tremblement
Stretch : partie
Struck : a frappé
Homeless : sans abris
Boundary : Limite
To sink : plonger
Standards : normes
The Earth
Three envelopes
the Crust (0-70km)
the mantle (70-2885km)
the core
Two phenomena
volcanic
earthquakes
CALIFORNIA :Why is there the risk of a Big One?
MEXICO : What are the risks due to ?
JAPAN: Tensions build up along different boundaries : Tsunami in 2011 responsible for the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Tsunami = earthquake in the sea causing a wave