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Most tsunamis are caused by earthquakes. The rubbing between the subducting plate and the dominant plate is huge. This rubbing prevents a slow and steady rate of subduction and keeps the two plates from becoming "stuck". The stuck plates descend into the mantle causes a slow bend in the overriding plate. The result is a buildup of energy similar to the energy stored in a packed in spring. Energy can build up in the overriding plate over a long period of time. The overriding plate snaps back into a wild position. This motion is the cause of the tsunami.

POLINAS BLOG!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey everybody,
SO this is my last time blogging ever and ever and ever cuz next year im gonna be a high schooler and wont have to blog. So the weather outside is a high 82 and a low of 65 (courtesy to weather.com) and the earthquake activity is right here at http://earthquake.usgs.gov/ right now the most serious earthquake is happening on the Solomon Islands which is 5.1 magnitude on the Richter scale.

This sandwich looks scrumtrelecent. Sup, today is Monday the 18th, and Welton gave us a seven page packet and notes 2-3 to 2-5 due monday. And the chapter two test is Tuesday the 26th. the big earthquakes today were a 5.0 magnitude in the south Pacific Ocean, a 5.0 on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, and 3.7 and 3.8 on the Alaskan island of Kodiak. See ya.

Hey, its shayna.

Okay here's the weather for today, Sunday: 65 degrees fahrenheit, and its sunny, and its 33% humid, and the wind is coming from the southwest direction at 9 mph. The homework due monday was 2.1 packet, 2.1 vocab cards, and 2.2 RNV. There have been about 900 earthquakes in the past week in the United States. So that's kinda a lot but they clearly haven't been very noticeable. I hope you have a good Sunday! --Shayna

POLINAS BLOG!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi this is Polina blogging,
I was supposed to blog yesterday, but was not able to because yesterday was Shabbat. So I am blogging today. HEre is the link to the earthquake info. The weather yesterday was a hi of 68 and a low of 49. The weather today is a hi 62 and a low of 48. For more weather info go to
http://www.weather.com .
SO I am packing for "the WIndy city" and am very excited.

this is the earthquake link

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/

Hi ya'll. This sandwich looks tasty. It is a miserable Monday Quatro de Mayo in KC. It was 69 degrees the whole day, and it was humid, but no rain. Slater and I played basketball with the 3rd graders at lunch. Today, Mr. Welton was on his Arizona trip with the sevies, so our substitute was Mr. Altshul. We all started cutting up and decorating our globes. Note: Do NOT use a scalpel to cut through styrofoam. Anyway, we got out of class five minutes early.  I looked on usgs.gov. Today there was a 5.2 magnitude earthquake in the Pacific Solomon Islands as well as a 5.9 later in the day, a 5.6 in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, a 5.3 in Miranda, Venezuala, a 4.6 in the Flores Sea by Indonesia, and a 4.2 in the Fox Islands in the Aluetian Island area in Alaska. The biggest earthquake of the week was a 6.2 in Guatamala. 

 A picture of the damage down by the Guatamalan earthquake