1. PLATE TECTONICS A UNIFYING CONCEPT FOR UNDERSTANDING EARTHQUAKES AND VOLCANOES Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, University of North Carolina, USA

2. PLANET EARTH, A UNIQUE DYNAMIC PLANET

3. POSITION OF TECTONIC PLATES TWO EARTH DAYS AGO

4. POSITION OF TECTONIC PLATES NOW

5. SCHEMATIC MAP OF TECTONIC PLATES

6. EARTHQUAKES DEFINE PLATE BOUNDARIES: PACIFIC, EURASIAN, NA, SA, NASCA, CARIBBEAN, COCOS, AND PHILIPPINES PLATES

7. SUBDUCTION OF CONVERGING PLATES

9. NORTH AMERICAN AND PACIFIC PLATES

10. SAN ANDREAS FAULT: BOUNDARY OF NA AND PACIFIC PLATES

11. SAN ANDREAS FAULT: SO. CALIFORNIA

12. THE CARIBBEAN TECTONIC PLATE

14. NORTH AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN PLATE SUBDUCTION ZONE

15. PACIFIC, JUAN DE FUCA, AND NORTH AMERICA PLATES

16. JUAN DE FUCA PLATE

17. FAULTS: COCOS PLATE SUBDUCTION ZONE

18. ARABIAN, AFRICAN, ANATOLIAN, AND EURASIAN PLATES

19. ARABIAN PLATE

20. DEAD SEA RIFT ZONE

21. FAULT MAP: TURKEY

22. COLLISION OF CONVERGING PLATES

23. AFRICA, ARABIAN, EURASIA, AND INDIAN PLATES

24. ANNEX 1: MODELING THE POSITIONS AND MOVEMENTS OF THE TECTONIC PLATES OVER TIME FROM 255 MILLION YEARS AGO TO 250 MILLION YEARS IN THE FUTURE

26. PLATE POSITIONS: LATE PERMIAN 255 MYA

27. PLATE POSITIONS: LATE JURASSIC 152 MYA

28. PLATE POSITIONS; LATE CRETACEOUS 94 MYA

29. PLATE POSITIONS: MIOCENE 14 MYA

30. PLATE POSITIONS: LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM 18,000 YA

31. PLATE POSITIONS: MODERN WORLD

32. FUTURE WORLD: + 50 MY

33. FUTURE WORLD: + 250 MY