They constantly move.
EDIT: Lithospheric plates move only about a few centimeters a year.
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Aesthenosphere
Yes.
Continental Plates
Lithospheric plates move constantly at a very slow rate, typically around a few centimeters per year. This movement is driven by the slow convection currents in the Earth's mantle, causing the plates to either diverge, converge, or slide past each other at plate boundaries.
5 centimeters.
5 centimeters per year
Lower mantle is the surface on which the lithospheric plates move around earths surface.
there is convection in the mantle. it causes the plates to move.
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annually
No, tidal drift is caused by the gravitational pull of the Moon and Sun on Earth's oceans, and it does not directly cause the movement of lithospheric plates. The movement of lithospheric plates is driven by the convection currents in the mantle beneath the Earth's crust.
When an earthquake occurs, lithospheric plates either slide past each other, collide, or move apart along their boundaries. The stress accumulated along the plate boundaries is released suddenly, causing the plates to deform and generate seismic waves that we feel as an earthquake.