The ground is part of a plate

By Our changing Earth · myAudience

myAudience · AI-generated illustration · Original generated illustration; not documentary evidence

Earth’s lithosphere is divided into moving plates containing oceanic and continental rock. A plate is not the same thing as a continent. Boundaries help explain many patterns of earthquakes and volcanoes, but a simplified map cannot predict an individual event. Think of geology as a record of processes over time. Our illustration is a conceptual landscape, not a hazard map or a current warning.