Earthquake Causes Tsunami. Energy accumulates in the overriding plate until it exceeds the frictional forces between the two stuck plates. When this happens, the overriding plate snaps back into an unrestrained position. This sudden motion is the cause of the tsunami - because it gives an enormous shove to the overlying water.
Ajo is in the Sonoran Desert, tucked away in Western Pima County in Arizona, about 120 miles southwest of Phoenix and 130 miles west of Tucson.
Ajo and the New Cornelia mine. NASA photo. Ajo (/ËÉËhoÊ/ AH-hoh; O'odham: Moik Wahia or O'odham: Ê¼OÊ¼oho) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Pima County, Arizona, United States.n the year 1884, the camp at Ajo was practically abandoned. Not a soul was in camp when Tom Childs Sr., and his son arrived. With them was Washington Michael Jacobs of Tucson, Arizona ...Childs and Jacobs located the mining claim which constituted most of the old Ajo group of mines.