M7.6 Costa Rica Earthquake September 5, 2012 | USGS A M7.6 earthquake occurred in northwestern Costa Rica at about 8:42 local time. Human... The Beginning of Plate Tectonics April 18, 2012 | ScienceNews An article on the ScienceNews website titled "Stop-and-go plate tectonics" explores how the process of... Oil Slick Spotted in the Gulf of Mexico April 17, 2012 | Chron.com A natural oil seep is thought to be responsible for a 10-mile wide oil slick... Landslides and Plate Tectonics May 30, 2012 | University of Washington "Some of the steepest mountain slopes in the world got that way because of the... The Lubricant for Tectonic Plates? March 20, 2013 | Scripps News "Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have found a layer of... Oil and Gas Resources of South America and the Caribbean June 25, 2012 | USGS "Using a geology-based assessment methodology, the U.S. Geological Survey estimated means of 126 billion barrels... Caribbean Oil and Natural Gas Report May 2, 2012 | Energy Information Administration "Although most Caribbean countries are energy importers, the Caribbean has important centers for oil refining... Caribbean Earthquake History February 6, 2012 | USGS "Earthquakes have been documented in the northeastern Caribbean since the arrival of Columbus to the... |