Louisiana does not rest on a tectonic plate boundary but is instead is a passive margin with high sediment supply, during early formation of the large sediment deposit shallow growth faults formed ...

“The Atlantic Seaboard is considered a passive plate boundary, as opposed to the active plate boundary on the West Coast” – ...

“The Atlantic Seaboard is considered a passive plate boundary, as opposed to the active plate boundary on the West Coast” – so the quakes tend to be smaller and much less frequent on the ...

(CNN) — A magnitude 3.8 earthquake rattled parts of New England on Monday morning, with shaking felt from Boston to Portland, Maine, the US Geological Survey said. The quake was centered about 7 ...

“The Atlantic Seaboard is considered a passive plate boundary, as opposed to the active plate boundary on the West Coast” – so the quakes tend to be smaller and much less frequent on the ...