batman wrote on 06/08/18 at 23:22:21: Your forgetting the mid pacific ridge ,the plate is moving both east and west ,that plate slides under Japan , Alaska , and the U,S. west coast,home to a lot of volcanos /earthquakes It also replaces all the mass lost to volcanic eruptions .I would not look to see the eruptions on the island to stop anytime soon ,as the plate it sits on only moves about as fast as your fingernail grows in a year (3/4 of an inch) which means it is escaping the hot spot at the rate of 1 mile every 8,448 years, (or just under 1/4 of a mile since the birth of Christ). the chain of islands is 1500 miles long ,the oldest is between 7-8 million years and the big island 1-1.7 million years old, which kind of tells you they don't move to fast even if you light a fire under their butt,
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WOW, that is amazing.....
Not sure why its piquing my interest now, maybe just seeing the pictures....
Thanks for the info, that is some amazing amount of mass moving, er, I said mass, right?
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