the Caribbean now has a new claim to fame in plate tectonics. “This is the first large scale ocean bottom seismic experiment conducted at an Atlantic subduction zone,” Rychert says.

The offshore earthquake occurred at 6:23 EST and about 125 miles southwest of George Town, Cayman Islands, and near the boundary between the North American and Caribbean tectonic plates ...

at the boundary between the North American and Caribbean tectonic plate boundary. Severe ground shaking from the 1976 earthquake caused landslides and sediment-laden turbidity currents that can be ...

Also known as the Circum-Pacific Belt, the Ring of Fire traces the meeting points of many tectonic plates, including the Eurasian, North American, Juan de Fuca, Cocos, Caribbean, Nazca ...

More specifically, subduction zones — where tectonic plates slip over and under each ... the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean and the Scotia Arc near Antarctica. "These subduction zones invaded ...

The study of Structural Geology and Tectonics concerns the ... southeastern Caribbean region, and have dived and drilled in thousands of meters of water to observe and take samples from active plate ...