The biggest changes to the plate model have been in western North America, which often has the boundary with the Pacific Plate drawn as the San Andreas and Queen Charlotte Faults.

The authors found that when supervolcanoes are located in regions being pulled apart by plate tectonics, eruptions likely happen a little more frequently than under different tectonic conditions.

The plate boundary between India and Sunda plates across the Indo-Burmese arc (IBA) region is probably the most neglected domain as far as the plate motion, crustal deformation and earthquake ...