A 3D block diagram across North America showing a mantle tomography image reveals the Slab Unfolding method used to flatten the Farallon tectonic plate. By doing this, Fuston and Wu were able to ...

Earthquakes happen every day all over the world, along both tectonic plate edges and interiors ... Normal faults show cracks where one block of rock is sliding down and away from another block of rock ...

This includes the movements of the Earth’s tectonic plates that result in the creation, destruction and rearrangement of the Earth’s crust and lithosphere. An early Holocene sea-level curve ...

Pressure from a pool of magma has just cracked solid rock, creating a volcano-tectonic (VT) event. This type of quake produces relatively high-frequency shaking, usually between one and five ...

The Lhasa block, or Lhasa terrane ... Positioned between the Qiangtang and Tethyan Himalayan terranes, it experiences tectonic forces from the Indian-Eurasian plate collision.