Chapter 260: Popularizing Geography

After the catastrophe of the previous life, experts and scholars have deeply interpreted the causes of earthquakes, including the active crustal movement here.

If you look at the definition of earthquake, it is actually a natural phenomenon that produces seismic waves during the rapid release of energy from the earth's crust.

The place where the earthquake starts is called the epicenter, and the ground directly above the epicenter is called the epicenter.

So...... Is the dragon vein lying on the epicenter?

"Then if you move the nest, will it cause the ground to move?" Zhou Rui frowned, she wanted to minimize the damage of the earthquake, but she didn't think about making the earthquake earlier.

"No, no, it's not that active. "The dragon vein didn't dare to provoke, it always felt that Zhou Rui attached great importance to this matter.

Recalling the reports of her previous life, Zhou Rui's memory was already a little blurry, but she couldn't stand the powerful soul power brought by rebirth, and soon, she found an official explanation for the cause of this catastrophe.

As the Indian Ocean plate moves northward at a rate of about 15 cm per year, the Eurasian plate is under pressure and causes the Tibetan Plateau to uplift rapidly. Due to the influence of gravity, the eastern part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is gradually sinking along the Longmen Mountain, and is facing the tenacious resistance of the Sichuan Basin, resulting in the long-term accumulation of tectonic stress energy. In the end, the pressure was suddenly released in the area from Beichuan to Yingxiu in Longmen Mountain. Thrust, dextralwind, and extrusion fault earthquakes were caused. The mega earthquake occurs in the brittle and ductile transition zone of the earth's crust, with an epicenter depth of 10~20 kilometers, close to the surface, and a long duration (about 2 minutes), so the damage is huge and the impact is strong.

Shallow seismic ......

"Where are you now?" Zhou Rui's eyes narrowed unconsciously, which was an unconscious manifestation when she was thinking.

"Me? I'm five or six kilometers below you. The dragon vein was a little strange, but it still answered honestly.

"Over the years, have you felt the squeeze?" The Indian Ocean plate is moving northward, and a dozen centimeters a year may not seem like much, but what about ten years? It is more than one meter, and a hundred years is more than ten meters!

What about a thousand years? 10,000 years?

These are a fraction of the time the Earth has existed.

Didn't you learn geography when you were a child?

Zhou Rui is not so strong as to think that he can reverse the movement of the continental plate!

"Yes, however, this is a kind of tempering for me, if I don't have the power of squeezing, I can't become a dragon vein and open up my spiritual wisdom." ”

Yes, the dragon vein has existed for millions of years, and although it is still in a state of unperceptual 99% of the time, if there is no problem with the experts' interpretation, in a million years, the Indian Ocean plate can move more than 100,000 meters northward!

So during the time of the dragon's vein, the plates moved at least a few hundred kilometers?

"Mathematics, what about the mathematics major in your previous life, you are a simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division when the plate moves?

"No, I just want to know if the earthquake will come early if the dragon vein is removed. Zhou Rui shook her head, not much of her knowledge reserve was about earthquakes, and of course all she could do was simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

"No, you're so fragile on Earth, and although it's been a few years since its outbreak, the dragon veins aren't that important. ”

"If it's two years later, it could be an opportunity to cause an earthquake. ”