The Lithosphere. :)
Tectonic plate
Tectonic plate
Tectonic plate
Tectonic plate
Anywhere on earth is on one plate or another, the damage usually occurs where the plate edges meet.
Anywhere on earth is on one plate or another, the damage usually occurs where the plate edges meet.
All tectonic plates are part of the Earth crust.
Core
The Mantle and Earth's crust
Plate tectonics make up the Earth's crust. They are very large plates of rock. There are 14 major plates: the Antarctic Plate, the African Plate, the Arabian Plate, the Caribbean Plate, the Cocos Plate, the Eurasian Plate, the Indian Plate, the Nazca Plate, the North American Plate, the Pacific Plate, the Philippine Plate, the Scotia Plate, the Australian Plate, the Juan de Fuco Plate, and the South American Plate. They only move a few centimeters a year.
The continents are part of Earth's tectonic plate system, when the plates move the continents move with them. The plate movement is driven by slow mantle convection driven by the heat in Earth's core.
A plate is part of the lithosphere. The lithosphere is the outermost rigid layer of the Earth's surface, and it is divided into tectonic plates. A focus refers to the point within the Earth where an earthquake originates.