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Faults, Ridges & Plates
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The Alpine Fault
The plate boundary that runs up New Zealand's South Island and lifts the Southern Alps
The Cascadia Subduction Zone
The quiet megathrust off the Pacific Northwest that last broke in a magnitude 9 earthquake in 1700
The Himalayan Collision Zone
Where India drives into Asia, raising the world's highest mountains and its deadliest continental quakes
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge
The 16,000-kilometer undersea mountain range where the Atlantic Ocean is still being born
The New Madrid Seismic Zone
The buried faults in the middle of North America that shook the Mississippi Valley in 1811 and 1812
The North Anatolian Fault
Turkey's 1,500-kilometer strike-slip fault, unzipping westward toward Istanbul
The San Andreas Fault
California's 1,200-kilometer seam between the Pacific and North American plates
The Tectonic Plates
The seven great slabs and dozens of smaller ones that make up Earth's moving shell