Where one plate dives beneath another, the fault sticks for centuries, then slips in a single great earthquake and launches a tsunami. Vertical motions exaggerated.
How earthquakes work →How the Earth works: plate tectonics, the rock cycle, earthquakes and volcanoes, and how to read 4.5 billion years of history in the rocks. Then two places we're currently putting this knowledge to work: spreading crushed rock to pull CO₂ out of the air, and finding the metals the energy transition needs.