why some places are more prone to natural disasters then other places
In: Planetary Science
whats to explain?
earthquakes happen mainly at techtonic plate boundries, anything near one is more likely to get an earthquake,
earthquakes cause tsunamies, so anything with an ocean coast facing an earthquake zone is a higher risk of those
huricanes are made by specific ocean conditions, anywhere downwind of a place that frequently gets those conditions is at high risk of those
floods are caused by too much water, anywhere down hill of a high rain place is at higher risk of those
wildfires need dry plants to spread, anywhere with lots of dry plants is at risk of those.
all of them are pretty intuative, find the cause of the disaster, anywhere with that is at high risk of said disaster
The surface of the earth is not stable. Underneath the ground, there are large chunks of matter called tectonic plates. They slowly move. Where they collide, earthquakes may occur. Some places are located in the usual paths of strong winds or nearby the rivers or other estuaries prone to flooding.
The majority of natural disasters (tsunamis, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions) have to do with tectonic plates. So the shortest answer would be: where the tectonic plates rub against each other or collide, the risk of these events is higher. See Japan, Iceland, Haiti…
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