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USGS CMG InfoBank Geology School: North American Plate


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Title	Comment	Keywords
Plate Boundaries	01:04 - 02:38 (01:34) / 0.8 MB	"James Sadd", collision, valley, mountain, plate, crust, continent, "plate margin", earthquake, volcano, "deep-sea trench", "San Andreas Fault", California, "North American Plate", "Pacific Plate", orogeny, "geologic hazard", oil, "mineral resource", landscape, mechanism
Destructive Forces of Earthquakes	03:26 - 04:36 (01:10) / 1.4 MB	earthquake, "San Andreas Fault", California, plate, "North American Plate", "Pacific Plate", fault, "Richter Scale", Iran, Armenia, China, "James Sadd"
Living With the Earth: The Loma Prieta Earthquake	00:40 - 02:08 (01:28) / 1.5 MB	introduction, "San Francisco", "North American Plate", "Pacific Plate", "Loma Prieta Earthquake"
Fault Segments	12:49 - 14:18 (01:29) / 1.9 MB	"Loma Prieta Earthquake", "San Francisco", Oakland, epicenter, "San Andreas Fault", earthquake, "fault segment", magnitude, "earthquake prediction", "North American Plate", "Pacific Plate"

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