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It is a frenzied, organized dance with missed steps and dropped plates and canned tuna and mayonnaise gussied up into a fancy tonnato sauce that tastes upscale and flawless to the unsuspecting.

From Salon • Jun. 28, 2026

The rate at which tectonic plates are moving past one another in Venezuela is similar to how fast seismic strain is accumulating on the San Andreas fault in California, Jones said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2026

There are several strike-slip faults where the two plates slide up against each other horizontally, sometimes snagging and building stress before violently rupturing and sometimes, as in Wednesday’s event, releasing another earthquake.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 25, 2026

Venezuela lies along the boundary between the Caribbean and South American tectonic plates, which are moving past one another.

From BBC • Jun. 25, 2026

Within minutes, the table is filled with a feast’s worth of food; there are plates of rice, pots of soup, piles of potatoes, and many servings of meat.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer