Tectonic Hazards

• Tectonic Hazards


  • A Hazard created when the Earth's crust moves
• Tectonic Hazards


  • Earthquakes
  • Volcanoes
• Factors affecting hazard risk

  • Population Growth
  • Urbanisation
• Urbanisation


  Growth in the urban population, usually resulting in the extension of towns or cities
• Continental crust


  • The surface of the Earth's crust found underneath large land masses
• Types of plate margins

  • Destructive
  • Constructive
  • Conservative
• A Destructive plate margin usually involves..

  involves an oceanic plate and a continental plate moving towards each other causing earthquakes