MOSES may have parted the Red Sea, but that was nothing compared to this feat. The world’s biggest tectonic plate under the Pacific seems to be tearing apart, forming a new mid-ocean ridge and two distinct plates.
Muriel Gerbault and Valerie Clouard of the University of Chile in Santiago believe this is happening because the northern half of the plate has been moving west at a faster rate than the southern half for the past 7 million years.
“The northern Pacific plate has been moving west at a faster rate than the southern part for the past 7 million years”…
