Week 2: Philippines Plate Tectonics

Week 2 is about the different plate boundaries and how close our countries are to them . Plate tectonics are the reason why the several most devastating natural hazards occur.  The three different kind of boundaries are divergent, transform, and convergent.  Divergent is where the plates move away from each other, transform is when they move past each other, and convergent is when they move toward one another.  Earthquakes and volcanoes happen at divergent, earthquakes happen at transform, and subduction zones along with volcanoes, earthquakes, and landslides happen at convergent boundaries.  

The Philippine sea plate is unusual, because almost all the boundaries are convergent.  The Pacific plate is subducting beneath the Philippine Sea plate to the east while the northwestern part of the Philippine Sea plate is subducting beneath the Eurasian plate.  There are also transform boundaries near the Taiwan and Philippine trench.  The Philippines is prone to a lot of natural disasters such as deadly typhoons, earthquakes, volcano eruptions and other natural disasters. This is due to its location along the Ring of Fire, or typhoon belt – a large Pacific Ocean region where many of Earth’s volcanic eruptions and earthquakes occur.  

Links used: https://tectonicsofasia.weebly.com/philippine-sea-plate.html