The Pacific Ocean Basin is rimmed by the most subduction zones.
The effects of an earthquake range from mild to severe and include structural damage, damaged gas lines, tidal waves, fires, avalanches and flooding. The amount of damage an earthquake can cause depends greatly on the size of the earthquake.
<span>Ranges are uplifted horst blocks adjacent to basins formed as graben</span>
Continents could not possibly the way he described it because he did not
provide any hard evidence that would give the ultimate cause or mechanism for
the continents to move