Your house is drifting. Right now. The continents are sliding around on the crust like bumper cars at a carnival. The tectonic plates are in constant, slow-motion chaos—moving about as fast as your fingernails grow.
Take the Pacific Plate. It’s shoving itself under Japan at a speedy four inches per year. That’s why you get earthquakes and volcanoes. The crust is stressed out from all that pushing.
Don’t panic. The plates only cause drama when they stick. Then they snap—and hello, tsunami. But mostly? They’re just slow, grumpy roommates.
