billions of years but the galapagos islands were for much more recently just five million years ago which seems like yesterday if you look at the history of the world it all began here at the galapagos hotspot when glowing hot lava broke through this unusually thin part of the earth s crust to form a volcano in china whole section of the earth s crust the nasca plate moved away to the southeast taking a volcano with it and making way for him in volcanoes and islands. spores and seeds of the first plants on the islands were probably carried here by birds bloomin on the wind. majuli blight started to develop.
over the equator forty five islands of various sizes about a thousand kilometers from the south american coast europe has been around for billions of years but the galapagos islands were for much more recently just five million years ago which seems like yesterday if you look at the history of the world it all began here at the galapagos hotspot when glowing hot lava broke through this unusually thin part of the earth s crust to form a volcano in china whole section of the earth s crust the nasca plate proved away to the southeast taking the volcano with it and making way for moonwalking us and islands. wars and seeds of the first plants on the islands were probably carried here by birds bloomin on the wind. majuli life
quickly. in fact at sea you would never really see it at sea. that s generate bide these plate plates. you ve got to have just the right kind of plate motion. remember the indonesian tsunami. this is the same kind of situation where you ve got a plate going under another plate and generating that kind of impulse. why do here the plates go underneath one another as opposed to pull apart? the offshore of south america there s a bill plate of the earth called the nasca plate. part of the pacific ocean floor. it s one of the most active plates on earth. it moves very quickly. so basically all the mountains along the west coast of south america, central america, are generated with all those volcanic mountains by these platesdarlington, we re looking at the range of countries which have watches or warnings in effect. panama, columbia, costa rica, x
california will have some problems. you know, the specifics of this quake, i m reading that the coastline, the faultline, 450 meals miles. i also read this typically moves 3.5 inches per year slowly, and it moved during this quake 25 feet. does that sound right to you? well, that s the fault rupture. now, the plate movement is the thing you refer to. and this has been going on for two earth days, 200 million years. in this case, we have the nasca plate and the south american plate. the nasca plate is moving the south american plate and going underneath to cause abduction. now, that rate is very slow, but when the rupture breaks, then that s the longer and bigger movement. you know, there seems to be you look around the world, and you see what has happened here in the last five or six years, and we are reminded in
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