True some explanations are not always based on empirical evidence
The North American plate is moving towards the west-southwest at about 2.3 centimeters every year mediated by the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, the spreading center, which gave rise to the Atlantic Ocean. The small Juan De Fuca plate, moving east-northeast at 4 centimeters every year, was once a component of much greater oceanic plates known as the Farallon plate.
The Farallon plate used to comprise what is now the Cocos plate of Mexico and Central America, and the Juan de Fuca plate in the region from N. Vancouver Island to the Cape Mendicino California, and a big sea floor tract in between. However, the middle portion of the Old Farallon plate disappeared underneath North America, it was subducted underneath California leaving the San Andreas fault system behind as the contact between the Pacific plates and North America.
The Juan De Fuca plate is still actively subducting underneath North America. Its movement is not smooth, however, rather sticky. The buildup of strain takes place until the fault dissociates and a few meters of Juan De Fuca get slid underneath North America in a big earthquake.
<u>Answer:</u> The magnitude rating for an earthquake causing an amplitude 10,000,000 times 
is 7.
<u>Explanation:</u>
Richter scale is defined as the scale which expresses the magnitude of earthquake on the basis of the seismograph oscillations.
The equation used to measure the magnitude of an earthquake on Richter scale is:
where
I = amplitude registered on seismograph 100 km away from seismic center = 
= small amplitude
Putting values in above equation, we get:
Hence, the magnitude rating for an earthquake causing an amplitude 10,000,000 times is 7.
Answer:
10.85 g of water
Explanation:
First we write the balanced chemical equation
Then we calculate the number of moles of nitric acid produced
n(HNO3) = 
According to the balanced equation, water needed in moles is always half the number of moles of HNO3 produced. So since we will produce 1.2044 mol of HNO3, we will need 0.6022 mol of water. Now to calculate what mass that is:
mass(water)=number of moles*molar mass=0.6022mol*18.02g/mol=10.85g
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Answer:</h3>
12.387 moles
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Explanation:</h3>
We are given;
Temperature of chlorine, T = 120°C
But, K = °C + 273.15
Therefore, T = 393.15 K
Pressure, P = 33.3 Atm
Volume, V = 12 L
We are required to calculate the number of moles of chlorine gas,
To find the number of moles we are going to use the ideal gas equation;
PV = nRT
R is the ideal gas constant, 0.082057 L.atm/mol.K
Therefore, rearranging the formula;
n = PV÷RT
Hence;
n = (33.3 atm × 12 L) ÷ (0.082057 × 393.15 K)
= 12.387 moles
Therefore, the number of moles of chlorine are 12.387 moles
