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But the largest quakes in the history of the contiguous United States have actually hit the supposed stable heartland, far from the edges of the crustal plate that carries North America. Subduction occurs when two crustal plates collide and one dives below the other. These great fractures in the Earth mark an area where the northwest-moving Pacific crustal plate grinds past the North American plate. |
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