1. Seismicity and Plate Tectonics Christa G. von Hillebrandt-Andrade Puerto Rico Seismic Network, UPRM Caribbean Training Course in Seismology and Tsunami Warnings St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago June 25-30, 2007

2. Our Dynamic Earth

3. Global Distribution of Tsunamis From NGDC

4. Global Distribution of Earthquakes

5. Global Seismicity and Tectonic Plates

6. Continental Drift Continental drift was first proposed in 1912 by Alfred Wegener, a German Astronomer and Professor.

7. Fossil Evidence Mesosaurus is a freshwater reptile which could not possibly swim across the ocean from South America to Africa.

8. Fossil Evidence

9. Evidence from Rocks

10. Evidence from Paleoclimates/Glaciation The orientation of rocks on several continents become consistent with those of a common ice-cap when they are re-assembled.

11. Keller, 2002 Plate Tectonics Evidence: Age of the Ocean Floor

12. Evidence: Magnetic Striping From Kious and Tilling, USGS

13. Evidence for Plate Tectonics: Seismicity

14. Distribution of Seismicity Worldwide Líneas de Costa, Límites Políticos

15. Circum-Caribbean Seismicity (1973-2006) NEIC (2006)

16. Age of Hawaiian volcanoes: Evidence for Plate Tectonics

17. Evidence for Tectonic Plate Theory: Earth Structure

18. USGS - http://earthquake.usgs.gov/ Plate Tectonic Forces

19. Break up of Pangaea Source: Dietmar Muller, Sydney University

20. Lithospheric Plates

21. Global Plate Tectonic Activity

22. GPS Vectors in the Northeastern Caribbean

23. "Plate tectonic maps and Continental drift animations by C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP Project (www.scotese.com)"

26. Plate Tectonic Boundaries

27. Forces Ductile Deformation Brittle Deformation Forces and Deformation

28. Divergent Boundary Copywrite Tasa Graphic Arts

29. Fuerzas Tensionales Fallamiento Normal Océano Falla de Transformación Normal and Strike Slip Faults Divergent Plate Boundaries

30. The Evolution of a Rift East African Rift Red Sea Atlantic Ocean Copywrite Tasa Graphic Arts

31. Continental Rift

32. Convergent Boundaries Oceanic Lithosphere Subducting under Oceanic Lithosphere

33. Océano Continente Magma Ascendente Convergent Plate Boundary Ocean-Continent

34. Subduction as Generation Zones for Tsunamis

35. Himalayan Orogeny

36. Convergent Boundaries Continent-Continent Copywrite Tasa Graphic Arts

37. Transform Boundaries

39. San Andreas Fault Wallace Creek Strike-Slip Offsets

40. Map of Tectonic Plates

41. Caribbean Tectonic Setting From ten Brink, USGS