Six of the majors are named for the continents embedded within them, such as the North American ... These convergent boundaries also occur where a plate of ocean dives, in a process called ...

and near the boundary between the North American and Caribbean tectonic plates, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The North America plate moves in a west-southwest direction at about 20 mm ...

According to the USGS, the earthquake was caused by strike-slip faulting in the upper crust, close to the boundary where the North American and Caribbean plates meet.

A 7.6-magnitude earthquake in the Caribbean Sea Saturday triggered tsunami warnings for Cuba and the Cayman Islands and ...