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That strain accumulates over decades and centuries, and is eventually unleashed in the form of earthquakes around that tectonic plate boundary.

Nonetheless, the shock and anger generated in Europe by events of the past week have added fuel to perceptions of a much larger transatlantic rift – of a shifting of the tectonic plates of international relations.

The earth's upper layer is split into different sections, called tectonic plates, which are all moving constantly.

A tectonic shift in the format of the BIG3 will bring the three-on-three basketball circuit founded by Ice Cube to Los Angeles this summer.

Its volatility is due to three tectonic plates meeting, an area known as the Mendocino Triple Junction.