Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

Tectonic plates are pieces of crust that fit together like puzzle pieces ... California is between the North American Plate and the Pacific Plate. It is 750 miles (1,200 kilometers) long.

Like the crooked pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, the tectonic plates ... as it can rapidly heat up the Pacific Ocean water, putting extreme stress on the continental plates, which could trigger an ...

It is made up of large slabs called tectonic plates. The plates fit together like jigsaw puzzle pieces far beneath our feet. Tectonic plates move - usually very slowly - and this broke Pangaea up ...

Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration. Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Day to day, most people can safely ignore that New Zealand rests along the boundary ...

The tectonic plate interactions in this region have resulted in some of the world’s most iconic geological features. When the Australian plate collided with the Pacific and Philippine Sea plates ...

The Samoa volcanic islands arise as the Pacific tectonic plate moves over a hotspot in the south Pacific Ocean. Resident reports of the frequent shaking, occurring multiple times a day for a few ...

This process is part of a larger geological cycle: Axial sits along the boundary between the Juan de Fuca and Pacific tectonic plates, where Earth’s crust is constantly shifting. Every time ...