Plate Tectonics

PLATE TECTONICS SIMULATION

▸ Building the lithosphere–asthenosphere cross-section…

▸ Loading 4 types of plate boundary

▸ Starting mantle convection

▸ Wiring the stick-slip stress model

▸ Calibrating the earthquake zones…

▸ Ready — Online. ✅

Stress gauge

🪢 Boundary stress

build → threshold → slip

Boundary—

Plate speed—

Stress—

Quake depth—

Last quake—

State—

Note

Stress builds up then drops abruptly when the fault slips — that is exactly an earthquake.

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Pick a boundary type & plate speed on the right · press “Trigger slip” to fire an earthquake · click a structure for details

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Stress over time (stick-slip sawtooth) stress