The Caribbean plate has been moving about a quarter of an inch per year, relative to the North American plate. But the two plates don't simply glide past one another.

The Caribbean region can be seen as a kind of natural laboratory in which, over millions of years, plate tectonics resulted in the transfer of a subduction zone from the Pacific to the Atlantic.

An entire series of earthquakes beginning with the Jan. 12 7.0 temblor in Haiti reflects the movement of the Caribbean plate eastward by about a couple of feet. A large number of aftershocks have ...

The Caribbean region can be seen as a kind of natural laboratory in which, over millions of years, plate tectonics resulted in the transfer of a subduction zone from the Pacific to the Atlantic ...

The island sits where the Caribbean Plate meets the North American Plate, an area that can be very active. To stream WUSA9 on your phone, you need the WUSA9 app. Download the WUSA9 app ...

Haiti sits right at the spot where the tectonic North American plate and the Caribbean plate meet. One fault line runs straight through Port-au-Prince, making it earthquake country as one gigantic ...

A magnitude 7.7 earthquake occurred Tuesday afternoon around 2:10 p.m. along a section of the Oriente fault between Cuba and Jamaica.

The warning was issued Saturday evening for the U.S. territories of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands after a magnitude 7.6 earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km in the Caribbean Sea around 6: ...