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Where do earthquakes appear most?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/16/2019

According to the USGS Indonesia is very active seismic zone and has the most earthquakes for a given country while Tonga, Fiji probably has the most earthquakes per unit area.

China, Iran, Japan and Turkey are all in seismically active areas and also rank high in number of earthquakes.

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