While no place on Earth is "guaranteed" to never have an earthquake, Antarctica and parts of the Central Australian Platform are among the most seismically stable regions on the planet. Antarctica experiences the fewest earthquakes of any continent because it is a massive, singular tectonic plate mostly isolated from the boundaries where plates collide. Similarly, much of the Australian interior sits on ancient, stable Precambrian rock far away from active fault lines. However, geologists often clarify that "never" is an overstatement; small, undetectable tremors can happen anywhere due to internal crustal stresses or "isostatic rebound" (the land rising after the weight of ice melts). Even Florida and North Dakota, the two most stable U.S. states, have recorded very minor seismic events in their history. In contrast, the "safest" places are usually those in the middle of a tectonic plate, far from the "Ring of Fire" or other subduction zones where the Earth's most violent movements occur.