They rub together and send shock-waves outward from the epicenter due to friction between the two plates.
The sudden movement of the Pacific tectonic plate under the North American plate caused a massive earthquake and a tsunami.
When plate movement causes rocks to break it is call an earthquake.
a tectonic plate
The edges of the plate
When tectonic plates collide an Earthquake is created.
An intraplate earthquake is a seismic event that occurs within the interior of a tectonic plate, away from plate boundaries. These earthquakes are less common than those that occur at plate boundaries but can still occur due to various factors such as old fault lines or mantle plumes. The causes of intraplate earthquakes are still not fully understood by scientists.
The tectonic plates involved in Japan's 2011 earthquake were the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate. The earthquake resulted from the Pacific Plate subducting beneath the North American Plate along the Japan Trench.
The tectonic plates involved in the Haiti earthquake are the Caribbean Plate and the North American Plate. The earthquake was caused by the movement along a strike-slip fault between these two plates.
Where a tectonic plate slides past another.
earthquake
I think it was the Caribbean plate and the cocos plate.
The Haiti earthquake occurred at the boundary of the Caribbean tectonic plate and the North American tectonic plate. The specific fault line responsible for the earthquake was the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault zone.