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Can an earthquake start a volcano?

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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

This is how many volcanoes can be created, although sometimes in a subtle way. The earthquakes are caused by the stress breaking along fault boundaries of the earths plates. Along these plates, there are streaks of volcanoes known as the ring of fire where there is passage between the mantle and the surface through the lithosphere. When an earthquake happens, this passage can be created and results in lava spewing from the sufrace in what you could call a volcano.

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14y ago

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