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Why are natural disasters in the west coast more dangerous than the ones in the East Coast

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The western United States lies along the boundaries of major tectonic plates that make up the Earth's crust—the North American Plate and the ocean plates to the west. These plates are moving against each other, breaking up the crust along many faults like the San Andreas Fault
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The east are closer to the equator.

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