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TIL that your toenails grow at about the same speed as the average continental plates drift. Tectonic plates drift about 1.5 cm a year. Some regions, such as coastal California, move quite fast in geological terms — almost 5 cm a year.

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/tectonics.html
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What is Tectonic Shift?

Tectonic shift is the movement of the plates that make up Earth’s crust.
US Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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scrottie (he/him/they)
(image is a map of "transform", "divergent", "convergent" (whatever those mean) lines on a map of the world, with earthquake activity points basically forming lines. Some rapidly alternating divergent/transform cuts up the ocean and convergent is along many coasts. The various plates, Philippine between east Asian and Australia, Antracrtic, Pacific, Cocos and Nazca west of South America, etc.)
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