Jordan Blain
E-Portfolio
Earthquakes
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Subduction (Oceanic-Continental)
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Magnitude 4.5
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Located in Acapulco de Juarez, Mexico
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Tuesday November 18 th , 2014 at 8:27 UTC
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Depth at epicenter was 28.54 miles
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The forces for this boundary type are plates coming together and one goes over top the other.

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Oceanic-Oceanic convergence
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Magnitude 5.4
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Located off the coast of Oregon
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Sunday November 23, 2014 at 11:01 UTC
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Depth at epicenter was 6.21 miles
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The forces for this boundary type are ocean plates running into each other.

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Continental-Continental convergence
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Magnitude 5.9
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Located in Kangding, China
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Saturday November 22 nd , 2014 at 8:55 UTC
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Depth at epicenter was 9.04 miles
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The forces for this boundary type are continental (land) plates running into each other.

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Transform
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Magnitude 4.3
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Located in San Jose del Cabo, Mexico
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Tuesday December 2 nd , 2014 at 13:51 UTC
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Depth at epicenter was 6.21 miles
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The forces at this type of boundary are when plates are sliding against each other but not running into each other.

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Divergent
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Magnitude 4.1
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Located in Szczercow, Poland
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Sunday, November 30 th 2014, at 16:28 UTC
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Depth at epicenter was 6.21 miles
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The forces at this type of boundary are plates moving apart from each other, or separating.

Volcanoes
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Cinder Cone
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Sunset Crater
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Continental convergence plate boundaries
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The forces at this location are continental plates running into each other.

Stratovolcano
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Saba
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Subduction plate boundaries
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The forces at this location are a continental plate and an oceanic plate are running into each other and one overtakes the other.

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Caldera
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Banda Api
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Oceanic convergent plate boundaries
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The forces at this location are two ocean plates running into each other.

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Shield
 Savai’i
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Divergent plate boundaries
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The forces at this location are plates spreading apart from each other.

Reflection
In doing this signature assignment, I learned a lot about earthquakes and volcanoes. I don’t use Google Earth ever so it was a little difficult for me to get started, but once I did it was fun to use. For each earthquake, I had to find them along the right plate boundaries and then filter them out by magnitude size. Once I did that, it was easy to find earthquakes that fit into each category. The volcanoes section was very straightforward and Google
Earth made it really easy to identify the different kinds of volcanoes.
Google Earth is an awesome program to have and use because it can let anyone explore places all over the world. I personally think that citizens should become familiar with how to use the program because it could be very useful in life. Privacy is something that could be an issue since the images could include their houses and cars, where just about anyone can get access to finding.
I went and explored the Earthquakes specifically in Utah because I was interested to see how many we get here that I am unaware of. There is a lot more little earthquakes that happen in our state that go unnoticed or unannounced because they are in very rural areas of the state and cause little to no damage. I have always heard of the Big Utah Earthquake that is

supposed to happen sometime soon, and now I can see why it is such a big deal because we don’t have earthquakes of large magnitudes here.