Every year, Hawaii moves about 3 inches closer to Alaska. This is the comparably the same rate that fingernails grow. All this is due to the shifting of each land masses tectnonic plates.
Hawaii sits in the middle of the Pacific Plate, which is slowly drifting north-west towards the North American Plate, back to Alaska. Hot, less-dense rock rises before cooling and sinking, giving rise to circular convection currents which act like giant conveyor belts, slowly shifting the tectonic plates above them. All this movement means that one day, Hawaii might just be a short boat ride off the coast of Alaska.
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