Explanation:
6. faultline- A fault trace or fault line is a place where the fault can be seen or mapped on the surface
7. fault plane- A fault plane is the plane that represents the fracture surface of a fault.
8. earthquake focus- The focus is the point within the earth where seismic waves originate; it is centered on the part of the fault that has the greatest movement.
9. earthquake epicenter- The epicenter is the point directly above it at the surface of the Earth. Also commonly termed the focus.
10. earthquake- Earthquakes are usually caused when rock underground suddenly breaks along a fault. This sudden release of energy causes the seismic waves that make the ground shake. After a while, the rocks break because of all the pressure that's built up. When the rocks break, the earthquake occurs.
The Philippines is an earthquake-prone country.
What are the reasons for this?
The Philippines has suffered from an inexhaustible number of deadly typhoons, earthquakes, volcano eruptions and other natural disasters. This is due to its location along the Ring of Fire, or typhoon belt – a large Pacific Ocean region where many of Earth’s volcanic eruptions and earthquakes occur.
These are the reasons why does the Philippines is an earthquake- prone country.
1. Ring of Fire
On top of everything else, the Philippines rests on the Pacific’s earthquake and volcano Ring of Fire.
Driven by the Pacific's Ocean's crust diving underneath the continents, the result is earthquakes and tsunamis striking the Philippines with regularity. A magnitude 7.2 earthquake last month killed 222 people, for example, on the island province of Bohol.
2. Patterns and Trends
The patterns of Volcanoes in the Philippines follow a mostly linearly dispersed pattern. This is because the Philippines is in line with the convergent boundary of the Philippine and Pacific plates. Subduction zones around the Philippines have caused volcanoes to form just as other countries have experienced. Considering most of the Philippines is a coastal region because the country is made up of islands, there is little refuge in the Philippines, especially on small islands. An overall mountainous physical geography with narrow to large coastal lowlands causes eruptions to be even more destructive.
3. Philippines have a lot of volcanoes
The volcanoes of the Philippines are produced at the junction of the Philippines tectonic plate and the Eurasian plate. Lahars (mud flows) are very common in the Philippines, because the archipelago has often heavy rains. Tsunamis accompany eruptions in the Philippines more often than in any other volcanic region.
