At a Transform Boundary, an earthquake happens because the plates slide against each other.
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When plates move past each other | AMNH
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When oceanic or continental plates slide past each other in opposite directions, or move in the same direction but at different speeds, a transform fault boundary is formed. No new crust is created or subducted, and no volcanoes form, but earthquakes occur along the fault.
A transform fault is one of the 4 types of boundaries where tectonic plates of the Earth's crust meet; it is a location where two plates meet in such a way that they slide past each other, moving parallel to the line of the fault. The liquid mantle and soft lower crusts slide past each other rather smoothly in a motion called shearing, while the solid and brittle upper crusts are stuck together by static friction.
Eventually enough force is built up by the movement of the lower crusts to overcome the static friction and suddenly allow the adjacent upper crusts to slip past each other. Tremendous waves of energy are released by this sudden slip, causing the Earth's crust to vibrate violently in an earthquake; in a major slip, the energy waves can create structural damage many miles from the location of the slip (the "epicenter").
it is when there is a fault which is when two plates rub up against each other like the California fault
a plate boundary is somthing that meets up and makes a soonarmy, earthquake.
Plates slide past each other horizontally.
They move away from each other.
earthquakes occur where there are transformed boundaries.
That is called a boundary or a transform-fault boundary. :D
divergent plate boundary- a boundary where two plates move apart from each other. convergent plate boundary- a boundary where two plates move towards each other so that one plate can sink beneath the other. transform plate boundary- a boundary where one plate slips along side another plate.
It is on a transform fault boundary.
Transform Boundary
it has transform boundary
Divergent plate boundary: Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Transform plate boundary: San Andreas Fault.
earthquakes occur where there are transformed boundaries.
That is called a boundary or a transform-fault boundary. :D
A transform plate boundary
what is the type of plate boundary? divergent, convergent, and transform
The San Andreas fault is a transform plate boundary.
transform boundary
transform boundary
Convergent plate boundary, divergent plate boundary and strike-slip (transform) plate boundary.
A transform fault boundary is a conservative plate boundary. This is what gets rid of lithosphere.
It is a transform plate boundary.