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At first, the hot, faulted edge of the continent was high and buoyant relative to the new ocean basin. As the edge of North America moved away from the hot rift zone, it began to cool and subside beneath the new Atlantic Ocean. This once-active divergent plate boundary became the passive, trailing edge of westward moving North America.
West of Central America: Subduction zone: Active: 1982 El Salvador (M7.3), 1992 Nicaragua (M7.7) Nankai Trough: 900: South of Honshū, Japan: Subduction zone: Active: see Nankai megathrust earthquakes: Neodani Fault: Japan: Oblique-slip: Active: 1891 Mino–Owari (M8.0) New Madrid Fault Zone: Missouri, United States: Normal fault: Active: 1811 ...
The Motagua Fault (also, Motagua Fault Zone) is a major, active left lateral-moving transform fault which cuts across Guatemala. It forms part of the tectonic boundary between the North American plate and the Caribbean plate .
The North American plate is a tectonic plate containing most of North America, Cuba, the Bahamas, extreme northeastern Asia, and parts of Iceland and the Azores.With an area of 76 million km 2 (29 million sq mi), it is the Earth's second largest tectonic plate, behind the Pacific plate (which borders the plate to the west).
The New Madrid seismic zone (NMSZ), sometimes called the New Madrid fault line (or fault zone or fault system), is a major seismic zone and a prolific source of intraplate earthquakes (earthquakes within a tectonic plate) in the Southern and Midwestern United States, stretching to the southwest from New Madrid, Missouri.
The accommodation of this plate configuration results in a transform boundary along the Mendocino fracture zone, and a divergent boundary at the Gorda Ridge. [2] [3] This area is tectonically active historically and today. The Cascadia subduction zone is capable of producing megathrust earthquakes on the order of MW 9.0.
April 5, 2024 at 6:36 PM. A view of New York City after a 4.8 magnitude earthquake shook parts of New York and New Jersey. ... Map of the Ramapo Fault System: Earthquake epicenter at Lebanon, NJ. ...
Map showing Earth's principal tectonic plates and their boundaries in detail. These plates comprise the bulk of the continents and the Pacific Ocean.For purposes of this list, a major plate is any plate with an area greater than 20 million km 2 (7.7 million sq mi)