Scotese studies how plate tectonics and a warming climate will change Earth's appearance in the future, and he has made multiple animated maps based from his research. For more animations from ...

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 ...

Plate tectonic theory shows that the crust of the ... moving at about the same speed as your fingernails grow, so the map of the world will continue to change, but just very, very, very slowly.

The USGS placed the quake at a strike slip fault near the boundary between the North America and Caribbean tectonic plates. "Large earthquakes at this location of the plate boundary are not ...