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Class 4 Earthquake PDF
Class 4 Earthquake PDF
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Dr G K Viswanadh Prof. of Civil Engineering &
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OSD to VC JNTUH
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rgent - where new crust is The Mid-Atlantic Ridge, which splits nearly the entire Atlantic Ocean
erated as the plates pull away from north to south, is probably the best- known and most-studied
other. example of a divergent-plate boundary. The rate of spreading along
the Mid- Atlantic Ridge averages about 2.5 centimeters per year
(cm/yr), or 25 km in a million years.
3. Transformational - where crust The San Andreas fault slicing through the
is neither produced nor Carrizo Plain in the Temblor Range east of the
destroyed as the plates slide city of San Luis Obispo
horizontally past each other.
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