We call this movement Plate Tectonics.
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Earth Plate Tectonics Animation
Cross section of the Earth and Plate Tectonics.
Complex, but if you want to know everything about plate movements...read on. Scientists now have a fairly good understanding of how the plates of the Earth's Crust move and how such movements cause earthquake activity.
A long time ago (way long), all of the earth's continents were squished together -- one supercontinent and one superocean.
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Tectonics, the Cause of Earthquakes
The plates consist of an outer layer of the Earth, the lithosphere, which is cool enough to behave as a more or less rigid shell.
