Plate boundaries are where the action is. A large fraction of all earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and mountain building occurs at plate boundaries. It is also where most of the people on Earth live.

Earthquakes. A short video for 11-14 year old pupils, exploring tectonic activity and earthquakes and featuring case studies ...

Whatever drives the movement, plate tectonic activity takes place at four types of boundaries: divergent boundaries, where new crust is formed; convergent boundaries, where crust is consumed ...

Volcanoes. A short video for 11-14 year old pupils, exploring tectonic activity and volcanoes and featuring case studies from ...

Earthquakes are among the most formidable natural disasters, striking with little warning and causing widespread devastation.

Although these earthquakes are much less common, they are due to the same forces that cause earthquakes along plate boundaries. Faults are defined by the kind of motion that happens where they are.

Transform boundaries neither create nor consume crust ... To the west of the fault is the Pacific plate, which is moving northwest. To the east is the North American Plate, which is moving ...

Madison police already have license plate readers in their cars ... they don’t respect boundaries,” Captain Terrell Cook said. “They don’t know the difference between now I’m leaving ...

Two city council members offer competing plans for Bartlesville’s license plate cameras: one to regulate, one to ban.

These convergent boundaries also occur where a plate of ocean dives, in a process called subduction, under a landmass. As the overlying plate lifts up, it also forms mountain ranges. In addition ...