the answer is tension
Tension is the force that causes plates to move sideways past each other. This can cause built up stress that releases suddenly and causes earthquakes.
The force that causes plates to move sideways past each other is known as shear stress. This results from the differential motion of tectonic plates at plate boundaries, where frictional resistance and built-up energy create lateral movement along faults. The release of this stress through earthquakes is common at transform boundaries like the San Andreas Fault in California.
The force that causes plates to move sideways is known as shear stress. This stress occurs when plates slide horizontally past each other along a transform fault boundary as a result of the movement of the underlying mantle material.
Faults.
A transform plate boundary is where plates move sideways past each other. This movement typically creates strike-slip faults.
The fault between two plates moving sideways past each other is called a transform fault. This type of fault occurs at transform boundaries where tectonic plates slide horizontally past each other.
Faults Boundary. Eg Transform fault.
The force that occurs when tectonic plates are pushed together is called "compression." This type of stress can lead to the formation of mountains, earthquakes, and other geological phenomena as the plates collide and interact with each other.
Is form when two plates collide; is caused by the force pushing against each other (the plates).
Convergent boundaries (plates moving toward each other, also called destructive boundaries), divergent boundaries (plates moving away from each other (sometimes called constructive boundaries), fault lines (sideways movement).
Transform plates are also known as "Spreading Plates." Therefore, they spread apart
if you are talking about earthquakes then its all about tectonic plates. The force of two plates get to much so one of the plates slide under the other forming an earthquake.