A long section of tectonic plates under California means the State experiences small earthquakes every day.
The tectonic plates under Mount Everest produced a 7.8 earthquake in Nepal in May 2015.
Scientists know that as tectonic plates pass move by each other, it causes major upheaval underground which causes an earthquake.
When I first saw you, I was certain that the tectonic plates had just shifted. The Earth's lithosphere is made up of seven or eight major, and many minor tectonic plates.
The tectonic plates slide together, causing an earthquake to erupt across the southern part of the state.
There are seven tectonic plates depicted in this setting.
Ok, I'm thinking you mean this as a science term so here it goes. The Tectonic Plates of the earth move little by little everyday. Sometimes they move a lot, and cause an earthquake.
Mt Eyjafjallajökull (whew!) is on 2 different tectonic plates.
Example sentence - The tectonic plates are always moving.
Example sentence - The tectonic plates are always moving.
Volcanoes often occur where tectonic plates meet.
The volcano suddenly erupted when two tectonic plates bumped into each other.
Plate tectonics, which studies the large rock plates floating on Earth's mantle, is an interesting field of study.
The convection current in the mantle drives the movement of tectonic plates.
When I first saw you, I was certain that the tectonic plates had just shifted. The Earth's lithosphere is made up of seven or eight major, and many minor tectonic plates.
The earthquake tranforms boundary between the two tectonic plates.
The tectonic plates slide together, causing an earthquake to erupt across the southern part of the state.
They are called tectonic or lithospheric plates.
Tectonic plates and fault lines created by the movement of tectonic plates.
Tectonic plates are also "Continental Crust" and "Oceanic Crust". Also lithospheric plates.