Week 2: Tectonic plates and El Salvador

El Salvador is one of the most seismically active earthquake vulnerable areas in the whole Western Hemisphere. El Salvador lies between two area of Tectonic plate movement . In southern El Salvador near the Pacific Ocean there is the cocos plate which pushes itself under the motionless Caribbean Plate a process called subduction which accounts for a good amount of earthquakes along the coast . In the northern side of El Salvador the North American tectonic plate meets one edge of the same stationary Caribbean plate which creates a major fault in the northernmost part of El Salvador and generates many earthquakes like the 2001 6.6m.

References: https://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/geography/Congo-Democratic-Republic-of-the-to-India/El-Salvador.html

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  1. Ana GGSeptember 3, 2022 at 12:42 PM

    This was a good tectonic setting reflection. Looking forward to what you'll discover in the upcoming weeks!

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  2. Omar MartinezSeptember 4, 2022 at 6:38 PM

    Your country is very similar to mine because both El Salvador and Ecuador has lots of mountains causing earthquakes and volcanoes.

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