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Q: Where do most divergent plate boundaries occur?
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Where do Volcanoes occur most often?

Usually along convergent plate boundaries, but they can also occur at divergent plate boundaries and hotspots.


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 kind of boundaries can cause earthquakes and volcanoes?

Earthquakes can occur at any type of plate boundary, but the most powerful earthquakes tend to occur at convergent boundaries and at transform boundaries.


Do earthquakes most often occur at faults that are away from plate boundary?

Earthquakes infrequently occur away from plate boundaries. Most earthquakes occur at plate boundaries because of the stress caused by the interacting plates.


Where do most present day faults occur?

Most present-day faults occur along boundaries. The three types of geologic boundaries are transform boundaries, divergent boundaries and convergent boundaries.


Do most severe earthquakes occur at plate boundaries or in the middle of plates?

Plate Boundaries


Most divergent plate boundaries are situated along the crests of?

oceanic ridges


Are all divergent boundaries located at mid ocean ridges?

No. Divergent boundaries can occur on continents. The most notable example of this is the East African Rift.


Which plate boundaries volcanoes are found along?

Volcanoes typically occur at two different types of plate boundaries. These two plate boundaries are: the diverging plate boundary where plates separate, and the converging plate boundaries where one plate is beneath another one at subduction zones.


How many plates are in earth that causes quakes?

All of the earth's tectonic plates have the potential to shift and cause an earthquake. However most of the time they only have the potential and some are more likely to shift than others.


What are 3 types of boundaries where volcanic eruptions occur?

Divergent, since when the plates split, magma reaches the surface. Convergent, since it is where volcanoes are typically formed. Transform, since trough any crack magma can come out too.


Most shallow focus earthquakes are found along?

Wherever divergent plate boundaries are