On March 28, 2025, a significant seismic event unfolded in the ocean depths of the central Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Recorded as a magnitude 6.1 earthquake by the United States Geologic ...

The movement of the plates creates three types of tectonic boundaries: convergent, where plates move into one another; divergent ... A single mid-ocean ridge system connects the world's oceans ...

2. It is a divergent tectonic plate boundary separating the African Plate to the north from the Antarctic Plate to the south. Mid-Atlantic Ridge 1. Located along the floor of the Atlantic Ocean ...

This is called a constructive or divergent plate boundary ... forming shallow-sided volcanoes. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, where the Eurasian and North American ...