"It's pretty surreal to walk between two major pieces of Earth's crust that are drifting in different directions," Brooke ...
So California gets a lot of earthquakes because it sits on a tectonic plate boundary. And the East Coast of the United States does not have very many earthquakes because it’s far away from plate ...
"This is an area of older, generally inactive faults, but they can become reactivated at any time," Jessica Jobe, a geologist ...
Earthquakes on the East Coast are rare because this region isn't located on a tectonic plate boundary ... according to the United States Geological Survey. Some research suggests that a new ...