KS3 Geography. Plate tectonics: Earthquakes. A short video for 11-14 year old pupils, exploring tectonic activity and earthquakes and featuring case studies from Haiti and New Zealand.

The earthquake took place at a conservative plate boundary, where the Caribbean plate moved eastwards. The focus was only 10 km deep, and the epicentre was 125 km from the capital Port-au-Prince.

Plate tectonics is the theory used to explain the structure of the Earth's crust and many of the associated phenomenon. The rigid lithosphere is split into 15 major plates that slowly move on top ...

Three-dimensional stress state above and below the plate boundary fault after the 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku earthquake. Earth and Planetary Science Letters , 2023; 601: 117888 DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117888 ...

The flight of MPs scrambling to claim new constituencies ahead of a difficult election or boundary changes is an old issue in British politics In Westminster parlance, it’s called a “chicken run” — a ...

Chair of Thirsk and Malton Conservatives, Rob Hall, said: “To reflect the boundary changes that will be effective at the next General Election, the local members of the Conservative Party who ...