Hi!
Let me say what happened after I last left off on my previous blog entry. First we took the flight to Paris arriving there at 11:25 AM (AF 401). Then we took a flight to Zurich in Switzerland at 2:55 PM which arrived there at 4:10 PM (LX 639). The airport is amazing! There are free Swiss chocolate samples at almost every store in the airport. Anyway right now we are in a hotel in Zurich. Tomorrow we will visit the Swiss national park. That is the site of a collision plate boundary. They are formed when two continental plates collide. In this case we will be seeing the collision of the African and Eurasian plates. Here is a diagram of a collision boundary:
As you can see the two plates collide and push each other up to create a mountain chain. The plates basically fuse together at collision boundaries. Earthquake activity is pretty low here compared to other areas. There has not even been one magnitude 6 or above earthquake in the Swiss Alps and the largest magnitude earthquake nearby is in the French Alps in 1909. There is no volcanic activity at all in Switzerland. There is however a volcanic activity in Italy which is nearby. There are 3 active volcanoes in Italy including Mount Vesuvius which erupted in 79 destroying Pompeii.
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