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Know: -Missouri has a fault line in the boot hill -Japan has a lot of earthquakes. -Some of Japans earthquakes are small and hardly detectable -Japan is surrounded by water -Missouri is in the middle of the United States -If Missouri has an earthquake we would most likely die because we do not know any drills and safety stuff. -We know Missouri has tornados,storms, and the it has only had on earthquake. -That it was one of the biggest earthquakes ever hit in Japan which caused the tsunami! -Sudden movement of the ocean floor is what causes a tsunami. -A nuclear reactor is a device in which nuclear chain reactions are initiated Need to Know: -Japan has had at least 40 earthquakes total? -A nuclear reactor is Any of several devices in which a chain reaction is initiated and controlled, with the resulting heat typically used for power generation and the neutrons and fission products used for military, experimental, and medical purposes. Also called //atomic reactor//. -Japan has had a Tsunami b4. the name Tsunami originated in Japan. If you've been in Japan more than a few weeks, you have likely felt at least a light tremor. -Japan has suffered 195 tsunamis since 400, according to Japan’s Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, which produced a report on tsunami threats to nuclear plants on the opposite coast to Dai-Ichi in July 2008. Three in the past three decades had waves of more than 10 meters -Japans fault line is in the ocean next to Japan. -Continental-continental collision---> when two plates collide into each other, mountains and volcanos are formed. EX: Mt.St Helens, Himilayans, Rocky Mountains, Appalacian Mountains -Oceanic-oceanic subduction---> when two plates spread apart this forms rifts and ridges. EX: Mid Ocean Ridge -Oceanic-continental subduction---> One plate slides under the other this is where volcanos are under water and erupts over and over again and starts to form Island arcs. EX: Japan, Hawaiian Islands. When there is a earthquake you should all find some were to go. -People in the region of Japan are fairly well prepared for earthquakes due to the frequency of them -An earthquake as large as the Japan one would require a relatively straight and very long fault line -The earthquake in Japan was caused like any other earthquake, by two tectonic plates hitting and moving each other. The tsunami in Japan was caused because the earthquake happened close to the surface of the earth in the lithosphere (crust). The seismic waves (mostly the Secondary waves rather than the Primary Compression Waves) shook the water and later became a giant tidal wave, which was the tsunami in Japan -missouri gets many small earthquakes a year.. and maybe one or two major ones a year  Read more: [] Geology Information

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Need to Know: Has Missouri had any earthquakes? [|Click here] Will we be affected by things going on in Japan? How do we prepare for it? H[|ow to do the safety drills for the earthquakes so we can be safe.] That missouri will never ever have an earthquake, but it might have one and if it does we need to be ready and make up a What do you do in the middle of an earthquake to stay safe? [| How much damage was caused in this earthquake ands tsunami.] [|Heres a list of all the earthquakes in Japan] [|How do you prepare for an earthquake?] How does thermal energy make the plates move? How Far was the plates?