The tiny Juan de Fuca plate is largely responsible for the ... The movement of the plates creates three types of tectonic boundaries: convergent, where plates move into one another; divergent ...

Cascadia is essentially the border between two tectonic plates: the massive North American continent, and the smaller Juan de ...

Also known as the Circum-Pacific Belt, the Ring of Fire traces the meeting points of many tectonic plates, including the Eurasian, North American, Juan de Fuca, Cocos, Caribbean, Nazca ...

Thus, there are a lot of different types of tectonic possibilities ... fault that allowed the Juan de Fuca/Gorda plates to move eastward relative to the Pacific plate. Crisis averted.