As the Atlantic is slowly getting wider, the Pacific is slowly shrinking by folding the sea floor towards the centre of theEarth in what is calledsubduction. The bumping and grinding is so hard that there are manyearthquakes andvolcanoes when thepressure builds up and is quickly released as largeexplosions of hotrocks anddust. When an earthquake happens under the sea, the quick jerk causes atsunami. That makes tsunamis more more common around the edge of the Pacific than anywhere else in the world. Many of the Earth's volcanoes areislands in the Pacific or oncontinents within a few hundredkilometers of the ocean's edge.Plate tectonics is another reason for the Pacific to be shrinking.
NOAA TAOEl Niño data Realtime Pacific Ocean El Niño buoy data
NOAA Ocean Surface Current Analyses – Realtime (OSCAR) Near-realtime Pacific Ocean Surface Currents derived from satellite altimeter and scatterometer data
