There are seven major (bigger) tectonic plates: African Plate, North American Plate, Pacific Plate, Eurasian Plate, Antarctic Plate, Indo-Australian Plate, South American Plate
There are also 10 minor plate such as the Nazca Plate and the Scotia Plate - so a total of 17 plates.
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A map with a scale of 1:24,000 means that 1 unit (inch,foot,km,mile) on the map is equal to 24,000 units in real life.
Explanation:
The coordinates of Utica, New York is 43.1009° N, 75.2327° W
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Explanation:
If the differences in the time of arrival of each wave is measured, the distance can be calculated. The more the difference in their time of arrival, the more the distance and this distance can be in any direction. If distance is used as the radius on the circle that will mean that the disturbance must have taken place on the circle.
If you place a telephone call to two people with similar measurements about this same event at different places, then their circles can be transfered to your own map, the point of intersection of this 3 circles is the location of disturbance.
