"Whatever is down there was strong enough to shake the entire Pacific plate.

You're not going to stop the whole Pacific plate from moving toward Alaska.

Most important, though, is the fact that the Pacific Plate is moving.

The plate is moving easterly along with the Pacific plate.

The Pacific plate is being subducted under the islands, forming the trench.

These volcanoes are formed when materials in the descending Pacific plate heat and rise to the surface.

That is the boundary between the North American and Pacific plates.

Nauru is moving at 104 mm per year to the north west along with the Pacific Plate.

Bird considers it to be unconnected to the Pacific Plate.

A transform boundary forms the northern border with the Pacific Plate.

They may have rumpled up in response to the impact of the Pacific plate on the continental California coast.

This hotspot developed simultaneously with a major Pacific Plate reorganisation.

It has since been moved to its present Gulf location by the northwestern movement of the Pacific Plate.

To its west is the Pacific Plate.

At first, the Pacific plate was subducted under the Australian plate.

But either way, a plane crash would not yield a fraction of the force necessary to trigger a harmonic wave across the Pacific plate.

The southeasterly side is a complex but generally convergent boundary with the Pacific Plate.

West of the Rise is the Pacific Plate.

The present subduction of the Pacific Plate in southern Alaska has been going on for about 26 million years.

New Zealand lies along the boundary between the Australian and Pacific plates.

This earthquake was an intraplate earthquake in the Pacific Plate.

I think one of the Pacific plates has crossed over the continent and ridden sideways across the Atlantic plate.

The movement of the Pacific Plate over the Louisville hotspot formed the chain.

The archipelago itself, produced by the Pacific plate moving over a hot spot, has existed for far longer, at least into the Cretaceous.

They are the Australian and Pacific plates.