Question

What process accounted for the distribution of widespread uplift and subsidence along the convergent plate boundary during and immediately following the 1964 Great Alaska earthquake? Group of answer choices
A. elastic rebound
B. multiple faults that all ruptured in different locations
C. tsunamis that arrives at different locations
D. patterns of aftershocks
E. all of the above

Answer 1

Answer:

Option A

Explanation:

• The elastic rebound hypothesis is a clarification for how vitality is spread during seismic tremors. As rocks on inverse sides of a deficiency are exposed to power and move, they collect vitality and gradually disfigure until their interior quality is surpassed.  
• As the Earth's outside layer twists, the stones which length the rival sides of a shortcoming are exposed to shear pressure.
• Gradually they disfigure, until their inside unbending nature is surpassed. At that point they separate with a break along the separation point.
• The abrupt development discharges collected vitality, and the stones snap back nearly to their unique shape. The already strong mass is isolated between the two gradually moving plates, the vitality discharged through the surroundings in a seismic wave.  
• The quake had inspired enormous segments of ocean bottom. That development created immense and quick moving waves in the untamed sea, called waves. In coves and bays, the tremor additionally activated submerged avalanches. These released more tidal waves.
• Together, these damaging waves cleared Alaska's coastline with wrecking rate and power. In places, the waves transcend as high as a 20-story building. They washed away everything in their prompt way - structures, docks and individuals.  
• No Alaskan who endure could ever overlook this day. By 12 PM, 131 individuals were dead. Most had been executed by the wave waves that raked the shoreline of Alaska, yet Oregon and California as well. For sure, similar to swells in a lake, a wave voyages outward every which way.