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Transform boundry, or what's known as shearing. It causes the plates to move past each other causing earthquakes in any areas.
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What type of plate boundary produces strong earthquakes?
Any type of plate boundary can cause an earthquake. That said, areas along convergent, divergent, and transform tectonic plate boundaries are the most likely places for earthquakes to occur.
What are most plate boundarise on?
plate boundry has four different parts. # conservative boundary. # constructive boundary. # destructive boundary. # collision boundary.
Is a composite volcano on a divergent boundary or convergent boundary?
They can be associated with both, but are most often found near convergent boundaries.
Where is the most active plate boundary?
The most CONSTANTLY active seems to be the Mid Atlantic Rift - which is spreading apart at about 2-3 centimeters per year and is actively emitting materials all the time. Iceland is at the northern terminus and has regularly active volcanos.
Which type of boundary do most earthquakes occur why?
Plate boundaries around Japan are convergent boundaries ie two plates are sliding towards each other. Japan has been formed as a result of the subduction of the Philippine Sea Plate beneath the continental Amurian Plate and Okinawa Plate to the south, and subduction of the Pacific Plate under the Okhotsk Plate to the north.
What type of plate boundary is most directly associated with mountain building?
Convergent plate boundaries.
Is a volcano a convergent boundary?
No. A volcano is not a plate boundary. Most volcanoes on land are associated with convergent boundaries, but many are associated with divergent boundaries and others with hot spots.
Is Mount Vesuvius near a hot spot divergent or convergent plate boundary?
Vesuvius is associated with a convergent boundary between the African Plate and the Eurasian Plate.
Do most tsunamis probably form near plate boundaries or far from them?
Most tsunamis are tirggered by earthquaes and so usually occur at plate boundaries.
Do tsunamis form at plate boundaries?
Usually, yes. Most tsunamis are generated at subduction zones. However, tsunamis can occur away from plate boundaries if they are triggered by landslides or meteor impacts.
What type of tectonic plate boundary is a strato-volcano on?
Most calderas are associated with subduction zones, a kind of convergent plate boundary. However, a few calderas, such as the ones at Yellowstone, are associated with hot spots rather than plate boundaries.
Why aren't there tsunamis in California?
Tsunamis generally require a king of plate boundary called a subduction zone, which forms where two plates collide underwater. The San Andreas Fault, the plate boundary which runs through California, is mostly on land and the plates slide past each other rather than into each other. Such a boundary will not trigger a tsunami.
Why type of plate boundary are most earthquakes near?
convergent boundary
What type of plate boundary is foud where the gorda plate meets the north american plate?
The boundary between the Gorda plate and the North American Plate is a transform boundary. Transform boundaries that lie at near land are the most destructive, which is the case in Southern California, which is close to this plate boundary.
Are cinder cone volcanoes located in the middle of a tectonic plate or at the boundary?
Most volcanoes of any type, including cinder cones, are found at plate boundaries, but some are associated with hot spots.
At what kind of plate boundary do most underwater volcanoes occur?
divergent boundary
Which plate is covering most of two continents?
convergant boundary and divergant boundary
