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yes earthquakes happen at all types of plate boundaries but most of them occur at destructive, collisional, and conservative plate boundaries

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Yes, around 10% of all recorded earthquakes occur at plate interiors.

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No. Earthquakes can occur well away from plate boundaries . Such earthquakes are called intraplate earthquakes.

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What plate boundary do earthquakes occur?

Earthquakes occur at all plate 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.


Which plate earthquakes occur at?

Earthquakes can occur anywhere on Earth but large ones are more common at destructive plate bookbinderies.


What regions do earthquakes mostly occur?

earthquakes usually occur at tectonic plate boundaries


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 occur more frequently in the interior plates?

No. The vast majority of earthquakes occur at or near plate boundaries.


Why do some earthquakes occur inside plate boundaries in the interior of a lithospheric plate?

some earthquakes happen inside the plate because they are dumb


Why do earthquakes occur at conservative plate boundaries?

because they do


Do earthquakes often occur at at faults that are away from plate boundaries?

Yes, but not as often as earthquakes happen near plate boundaries


Why do volcanoes and earthquakes occur on plate boundries?

earthquakes occur because plates move and they over lap causing an earthquake.