El Niño is a natural event that periodically weakens the
western surface of ocean currents in the equatorial pacific ocean. In an El Niño,
the wind that pushes water around (which keeps the east warm and west cold)
gets weaker making the ocean warmer, changing the air temperature and precipitation patterns in the United States.
Converging plate boundaries. continent to continent plate boundary converging if you want to be more specific.
to converge means to bring something together, that's how I always remembered. Transform boundaries move side to side, and are the reason for mainly fault lines, such as the San Andreas Fault in California. All plate boundaries do occur at subduction zones.
The ocean floor that is were the tsunami begian.
