Comments on: Why do so many Earthquakes seem to strike China more than any other nation?

By: scottsdalehigh64

scottsdalehigh64 — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 23:32:06 +0000

I don’t know if China gets more earthquakes than does the west coast of the U.S. or Russia. However, the larger the country, the greater probability of an earthquake. If earthquakes were uniformly distributed across the continents, the larger countries would have proportionately more.

However, the devastation when an earthquake happens in China is large because of their building practices. Their buildings tend to be too rigid to withstand large quakes. Equivalently sized earthquakes in the U.S. cause far fewer casualties because of better building designs and materials.

By: CAleb waters

CAleb waters — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 23:32:06 +0000

i think you mean Japan

and its called "the ring of fire"

YES

By: Brendan

Brendan — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 23:32:06 +0000

If you can see SVG images, look at this map:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Tectonic_plates_boundaries_detailed-en.svg

There are plenty of plate boundaries where earthquakes tend to happen. There’s the Ring of Fire as well as India moving northward, pushing up the Himalayas and causing pressure on the rocks in Asia.

By: →Loony Lovegood™

→Loony Lovegood™ — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 23:32:06 +0000

I asked my dad this question when there was that recent Earthquake in California. He said, "China’s in the ‘danger zone’"

So I think what he meant was that there are more plates near China than anywhere else

By: ♥Ginny Potter♥ Harry's wife♥

♥Ginny Potter♥ Harry's wife♥ — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 23:32:06 +0000

I think more fault lines meet near there. California and the U.S. west coast have lots of quakes too. Yet more of the pressure is released via all the active volcanoes (i.e. Mt. St Helens I’m near it lots of activity there that isn’t on international and/or national news. But the local goes on and on and on and…. about it) in alot of places.
Why so much in the area you mentioned. Hmmm Dense population and not as many volcanoes is my theory.