The Caribbean region can be seen as a kind of natural laboratory in which, over millions of years, plate tectonics resulted in the transfer of a subduction zone from the Pacific to the Atlantic.

Figure 1. Bathymetry of the northeast corner of the Caribbean Plate showing the major faults and plate boundaries; view looking south-west. The main bathymetric features of this area include: the ...

KS3 Geography. Plate tectonics: Earthquakes. A short video for 11-14 year old pupils, exploring tectonic activity and earthquakes and featuring case studies from Haiti and New Zealand.

Haiti sits right at the spot where the tectonic North American plate and the Caribbean plate meet. One fault line runs straight through Port-au-Prince, making it earthquake country as one gigantic ...

It is a transform plate boundary, so it involves horizontal motion where those two plates meet on that side of the Caribbean. Did you think there was going to be a stronger quake following the 7.7?

Geologic and Tectonic Development of the Caribbean Plate Boundary in Northern Central America focuses on the Chortis block of northern Central America (consisting of present-day Guatemala ...

The January 12, 2010, Haiti earthquake occurred in the boundary region separating the Caribbean plate and the North America plate. This plate boundary is dominated by left-lateral strike slip ...

The potential for devastating tsunamis in the northern Caribbean is high, say marine scientists. One major source of past tsunamis in the region was movement along the boundary between the North ...