Los Angeles, located on the Pacific plate, is now 340 miles south of San Francisco, located on the North American plate. ... The Continental Slide (convergent boundary) The Continental Crush ...

The Juan de Fuca plate is being forced under the North American plate at a convergent boundary. Friction keeps the plates from moving, but when the force of the plates grows too strong, ...

Convergent boundaries occur where plates collide. Where those plates meet, ... Visitors can walk down the rift between the North American plate and the Eurasian plate.

These convergent boundaries also occur where a plate of ocean dives, in a process called subduction, under a landmass. As the overlying plate lifts up, it also forms mountain ranges.

The observed changes in site velocity define a sharp boundary near the centre of the province oriented roughly parallel to the north-northwest relative plate motion vector.

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 ...

Geologists from Monash University have mapped the ocean floor off the coast of the Iberian Peninsula, finding the evidence for what lead author João Duarte described as "an embryonic subduction zone" ...

But because the state sits by the Pacific-North America plate boundary, it’s normal that new earthquakes will happen in the future. When and where, exactly? That’s impossible to say.