Plate tectonics relations to our life

When you initially think of plate tectonics you probably instantly go to something like volcanic events, sea level rise, and earthquakes. while those do have parts in our life, what about the more in depth look into these plates in our life's? While going through this objective something that really caught my eye was an entire Island practically smack dab inside an entire convergent boundary plate. What does most of what I said mean? well let us discuss about it.

So one big thing to get out of the way are what boundaries are and what types are their. With plate tectonics there are three type of boundaries, Divergent, Convergent, and transform boundaries. each of these three preform their own little special movements within the crust that can cause their own little events and outcomes to occurs. To simplify when a divergent boundary moves it splits apart which can cause earthquakes, the sea floor to split, or volcanoes to erupt. when a convergent boundary moves it moves in & under itself so to say and when this occurs this will cause earthquakes, mountains to build, or volcanoes to erupt. finally when it comes to a transform boundary when it moves it simply rubs along itself so to say which causes earthquakes to happen along where its moving.

Now that we got that out of the way lets discus a big point here, how does this relate to our day to day lives? Well that answer is quiet simple now that we know what the specific plates are. Plate tectonics have their hand in near every aspect of our earth. Plate tectonics are what causes earthquakes. The San Andreas fault line in specific is a transform plate that is on top (and one of the most active faults) of the Ring of Fire, a string of volcanoes and sites of seismic activity, or earthquakes, around the edges of the Pacific Ocean. The Philippines, an entire island country, resides inside a ring of convergent plate boundary's. This is what causes their frequent natural disasters, as I stated earlier convergent boundary's causes volcanic eruptions and earthquakes however due to their geographical location they're prone to average tsunami's & typhoon's.