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The resting potential tells about what happens when a neuron is at rest. An action potential occurs when a neuron sends information down an axon, away from the cell body. Neuroscientists use other words, such as a spike or an impulse for the action potential. The action potential is an explosion of electrical activity that is created by a depolarizing current. This means that some event (a stimulus) causes the resting potential to move toward 0 mV. When the depolarization reaches about -55 mV a neuron will fire an action potential. This is the threshold.
If the depolarisation is not great enough to reach the threshold, then an action potential (and hence an impulse) will not be produced. This is called the all or nothing law. This means that the ion channels are either open or closed; there is no half-way position. This means that the action potential always reaches +40mV as it moves along an axon, and it is never attenuated (reduced) by long axons.