Q&A: What tectonic plate movement caused the Sichuan Earthquake 2008?
Question by pas_lesi: What tectonic plate movement caused the Sichuan Earthquake 2008?
I need to know exactly what boundary; convergent, divergent or transform caused the Sichuan Earthquake last year. Diagrams will be appreciated. Thanks
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Answer by Three Days
asian plate, please let me the one you gets the best answer please because this would be the first answer I got that is the best answer thanx
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Sichuan_earthquake
convergent.
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when i first looked, it seemed well away from the Himalayas.
but when i saw the line of aftershocks, it made me quite suspicious.
reading, i see it is part of the collision boundary.