Week 2: France Tectonic plates


    France is located on the Eurasian Tectonic plate which is made up on micro plates making France more born to minor earthquakes. France is not located next to a boundary with no volcano eruption hotspots. Usually France gets minor earthquakes which are rare to big ones such as ones from the San Andreas Fault. 
    
    France is also on a side of the Mediterranean Sea which covers all 3 of complex tectonics of lithospheric plates which are Eurasia, Nubia, and Arabia. 


Sources:

https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/17824/active-tectonics-of-the-mediterranean-region-and-surrounding-areas

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/weird-earthquake-crack-france-geologists-buzzing

https://earthhow.com/7-major-tectonic-plates/

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  1. Ana GGSeptember 4, 2022 at 11:22 AM

    Thank you for your tectonics intro. It'll be interesting to see how much seismicity (earthquakes) you have next week! (or not)

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