Why America? Felix Sobeida By Jenny Carolina Gonzalez 
is not anything unusual happening, falling outside the regular process of development planet and that revising the story may find the occurrence of events similar to this year.
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The news this year has been marked by a word that became recurrent in the headlines: earthquake. In Latin America, Chile and Haiti have suffered large-scale earthquakes and Nicaragua, Argentina, Guatemala, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Mexico and Costa Rica have not escaped the shocks.
To understand this phenomenon is important to understand that we live on a dynamic, constantly evolving and that earthquakes are sudden release of stored energy, the result of processes that began thousands of millions of years.
For the West Bank of America is located on the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, where from Patagonia in Argentina and to Alaska in the United States, there are different plates that are constantly rearranged.
They are for the North Pacific, Cocos and Nazca to the center for the southern continent. In all cases, these plates are pushing eastward, to get under the surface of the continent. "This is not an easy process and will find a series of reactions such as earthquakes, "said Monica Arcila, a geologist at the National Seismological Network of Colombia.
Elkin Salcedo, director of the Western Colombian Seismological Observatory said that the process known as subduction is responsible for the movements in Chile, which has the strongest earthquake record of the history, 9.5 degrees and occurred in 1960, plus a number of earthquakes in other parts of the continent.
addition to the activity of these plates, is the internal dynamics of the continent whose fault lines have their own mobility.
Both experts agreed that nothing is happening abnormal, falling outside the regular process of development of the planet and that reviewing the story may find the occurrence of events similar to this year.
"What has changed is the speed with which we are informed," said the specialist Arcila, who also said that an earthquake has nothing to do with another, namely that it is wrong to think of a chain process, and that has nothing to do with environmental degradation of land.
"There are human-induced seismicity but at small such as oil extraction, but this only alters the first kilometers of the earth's crust, "said the geologist.
Land has always and will continue to tremble trembling. According Arcila every day there was an average of four earthquakes with magnitude greater than 0 or equal to 5 in the area of \u200b\u200bthe Pacific region, but its depth is imperceptible to humans.
Outside of Latin America, other seismically active in the continent are the states of Alaska and California in the United States.
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