What is the connection between plate boundaries and earthquake and volcano sites?

Answer 1

Volcanoes are created in subduction zones because of the melting of oceanic crust as it enters the mantle.

Earthquakes occur in plate boundaries because of the release of built up stress between the rocks constituting each plate, as they snap into a new position relative to each other, or fracture.

Answer 2

Plate boundaries are locations where tectonic plates interact, and the movement of these plates can cause earthquakes and volcanic activity. Earthquakes are often associated with transform boundaries where plates slide past each other, while volcanic activity is typically found at convergent boundaries where plates collide or divergent boundaries where plates separate, allowing magma to rise to the surface.

Answer 3

- earthquakes occur due to movement in the lithosphere as the plates move

- most volcanoes result when rocks are melts and pushed back up at plate boundaries

- Hot spots form in the middle of plates and result in volcanoes.

Answer 4

Because the Earth's skin is weakest at the joins between the plates, which allows magma to escape. Also the rubbing together of plates at the joins causes friction and thereby earthquakes. Fluids, in this case lava, will always follow the path of least resistance. The plate boundaries offer existing flow routes allowing lava to escape without having to break through the Earth's crust.

Answer 5

The next answer is my theory. Earthquakes and volcanoes occur as a result of percolation of water deep inside the earth. Earthquakes and volcanoes occur at the plate boundaries. Here the plates are moving away from each other. As a result you get a gap through which the water percolates deep inside. Water goes inside. then travels horizontally and in zigzag manner. There by gets trapped inside. Here there is a pressure cooker like phenomena. If you keep the whistle of the pressure cooker pressed, it will blast. So the water percolates along the gap. It travels a tedious path and water is trapped. The water is heated to the great extent. The temperature of water becomes equal to the lava. The quantity of water is also very large. The heated water eventually results in bursting the crust of the earth. You get earth quakes as the vapor is burst out. You get volcanoes as the lava comes out as a result of increased pressure nearby.

Answer 6

As the crust moves it shakes the Earths crust, which causes Earthquakes. It relates to volcanos because of ocean floor spreading.

Answer 7

the volcanoes are mainly found on tectonic plate boundaries

Answer 8

A majority of earthquakes and volcanoes occur along plate boundaries because of the movement of tectonic plates.

Answer 9

Plate boundries frequently move, causing plates to overlap and causing earthquakes.

Answer 10

Close to the fault line of tectonic plates the closer the more destruction.