大多數造成災害的地震，都集中在少數幾個巨大的板塊構造系統上。有些是正在積蓄規模 9 能量的隱沒帶逆衝斷層；有些是側向磨蹭的轉形斷層；有些是地面本身會升起又落下的火山臼。選一個區域，看看它運作的方式、那裡現在正在發生的地震，以及如何在下一次大地震前收到警報。
North America
Yellowstone
Wyoming, USA
Yellowstone’s real everyday hazard is steam, not a super-volcano.
查看即時活動Long Valley Caldera
Eastern California, USA
A caldera can swell and shake for forty years without erupting.
查看即時活動Cascadia Subduction Zone
Pacific Northwest, USA and Canada
Cascadia looks calm - and that is exactly the worry.
查看即時活動New Madrid Seismic Zone
Central United States
Some of America’s biggest quakes happened nowhere near a plate boundary.
查看即時活動Oklahoma
Central United States
A state with almost no history of quakes became one of the shakiest.
查看即時活動Mexican Pacific Coast
Middle America Trench
A strong offshore quake here is never just a dot on the map.
查看即時活動San Andreas Fault
California, USA
Parts of the San Andreas creep along quietly - others are stuck fast.
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Europe
Campi Flegrei
Bay of Naples, Italy
Near Naples, the ground literally rises and falls.
查看即時活動Reykjanes Peninsula
Southwest Iceland
Some earthquake swarms here are magma ripping the ground open.
查看即時活動Marmara Sea
North Anatolian Fault, Turkey
One fault has been failing westward, quake by quake, toward Istanbul.
查看即時活動Hellenic Arc and the Aegean
Greece and Santorini
The Aegean is the most seismically active region in Europe.
查看即時活動Asia
Nankai Trough
Off southern Japan
Off southern Japan, the seafloor is quietly winding up for a giant.
查看即時活動Himalayan Front
Nepal and northern India
India is still ramming into Asia - and the Himalaya takes the strain.
查看即時活動Tokyo and the Sagami Trough
Kanto region, Japan
Tokyo sits where three tectonic plates meet.
查看即時活動Kamchatka and the Kuril Arc
Russian Far East
One of the busiest subduction zones on the planet - quakes and volcanoes together.
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