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It is along the boundary between tectonic plates that most earthquakes occur. These plate boundaries are zones of differential movement between the plates. The tectonic plates, great masses of shifting crust, move into, along or away from each other at their boundaries. Forces of almost unimaginable magnitude build up pressures that cannot possibly be measured. And this occurs between masses of rock and earth that do not want to shift. When they "let go" in response to the pressure, a quake can occur.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 14y agoMountains, rift valleys, volcanoes, earthquakes, faulting - is due to different types of interaction at plate boundaries !
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∙ 14y agoConvergent (subduction) boundaries can cause earthquakes larger than magnitude 9.0. No other type of plate boundary can create such large quakes.
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∙ 13y agoThey occur at a transform boundary when two plates slide past each other and creates an earthquake
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∙ 12y agoThey occur at convergent plate boundaries where subduction is occurring.
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∙ 11y agoTectonic plates
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Do earthquakes most often occur at faults that are away from plate boundary?
Earthquakes infrequently occur away from plate boundaries. Most earthquakes occur at plate boundaries because of the stress caused by the interacting plates.
Do earthquakes occur in plate interiors?
yes earthquakes happen at all types of plate boundaries but most of them occur at destructive, collisional, and conservative plate boundaries
What regions do earthquakes mostly occur?
earthquakes usually occur at tectonic plate boundaries
What things occur along transform boundaries?
earthquakes
Where do shallow earthquakes occur?
At divergent and transform boundaries.
Do earthquakes most often occur at faults that are away from plate boundary?
Earthquakes infrequently occur away from plate boundaries. Most earthquakes occur at plate boundaries because of the stress caused by the interacting plates.
What plate boundary do earthquakes usually occur on?
earthquakes only happen at the edge of tectonic plates because of them moving which causes the 'quake' so there are never any BIG earthquakes in the UK because it is in the middle of a tectonic plate
What or which of the above boundaries can produce earthquake's at which of those is the largest earthquakes produced?
Transform boundaries produce the largest earthquakes.
What plate boundary do earthquakes occur?
Earthquakes occur at all plate boundaries.
Do earthquakes occur in plate interiors?
yes earthquakes happen at all types of plate boundaries but most of them occur at destructive, collisional, and conservative plate boundaries
What regions do earthquakes mostly occur?
earthquakes usually occur at tectonic plate boundaries
Where on earth do earthquakes occur?
Most earthquakes occur at or near the boundaries between tectonic plates.
Most earthquakes occur at the boundaries of these?
Most earthquakes occur at the boundaries of the tectonic plates. Tectonic plates are always in motion, and when two of them collide with one another it causes earthquakes.
Is an earthquakes a convergent or transform?
Earthquakes occur at all plate boundaries.
Earthquakes and occur at plate boundaries?
Volcanoes
Do earthquakes mostly occur at faults that are away from plate boundaries?
False. Earthquakes mostly occur along faults that are at or very near to plate boundaries.
Do earthquakes often occur at at faults that are away from plate boundaries?
Yes, but not as often as earthquakes happen near plate boundaries
