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.
The most common plate boundary that causes an earthquake is the destructive boundary.
Convergent boundaries where subduction occurs are responsible for the most powerful earthquakes.
earthquakes indicate both convergent,divergent and transform fault plate boundaries
Convergent and transform boundaries create most of large earthquakes.
Lateral Plate Boundaries
Earthquakes occur at all plate boundaries.
Earthquakes form at a Transform boundary when the plate slips past each other.
highly movable plate boundary quakes
Morocco is at a low risk for earthquakes because it is not in close proximity to a tectonic plate boundary.
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.
Earthquakes occur at all plate boundaries.
A transformational plate boundary forms earthquakes.
The plate boundary between the Nazca Plate and the South American Plate does produce volcanoes, earthquakes, and tsunamis. Hurricanes have nothing to do with plate boundaries.
convergent boundary
All three type of Earthquakes (Shallow-seated, Medium-seated and Deep-seated) occur only at the Convergent plate boundary. At divergent plate boundary we find mostly Shallow-seated Earthquakes only.
The 1811-1812 New Madrid earthquakes are a rare example of large earthquakes occurring in the middle of a plate, there was no plate boundary involved.
A transformational plate boundary forms earthquakes.
convergent plate boundary
transform boundary
They are similar because they both form volcanoes and earthquakes.
The worst plate boundary is the north american plate with the recorded worst for earthquakes
Earthquakes form at a Transform boundary when the plate slips past each other.