Sentence examples for major tectonic plates from inspiring English sources
The islands sit in the middle of an active, messy boundary between two major tectonic plates.
Indonesia straddles the Pacific "Ring of Fire" where three major tectonic plates, and several smaller ones, continuously grate.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Earth's tectonic platesMap showing Earth's major tectonic plates with arrows depicting the directions of plate movement.
Topographic maps reveal the locations of large earthquakes and indicate the boundaries of the 12 major tectonic plates.
Seismologists have never been sure exactly what fault was involved, in part because it was far from a boundary of the earth's major tectonic plates.
Interplate earthquakes occur on the edges of the major tectonic plates, whilst intraplate earthquakes occur within the tectonic plates.
The Pacific Plate, the major tectonic plate east of Japan, moves three inches or so every year, and as it dips under Honshu, Japan's main island, the upper plate is pulled down until, ultimately, there is a rupture, an earthquake.
In the casting of Mr. Cheadle, "House of Lies" underwent what Mr. Carnahan called "a major tectonic plate shift," not just for the serious actor credentials he brought to the project, but also for what Mr. Carnahan gleefully described as the "Don Cheadle coupon".
"I realized that a lot of the civilizations we were talking about sat right along major tectonic plate boundaries," says Force, who is now affiliated with the University of Arizona, Tucson.
The April 2012 quakes occurred far from a major boundary between tectonic plates, however.
The N.H.L. is having other major tremors in its tectonic plates.
