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Which term describes specific areas where the earth's plates move against each other and produce earthquakes?
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Why does an earthquake zone have earthquakes if no volcanoes are there?
Volcanoes are not the primary cause of earthquakes. Most earthquakes result from the stresses created by tectonic plates moving past or against one another. At transform boundaries there is no mechanism to produce volcanoes, but the movement of the plates will still cause earthquakes. Stresses within a plate can also cause earthquakes.
How faults produce earthquakes?
Faults DO NOT produce earthquakes, faults are produced by earthquakes. This means that earthquake loci are centered on and along faults. The energy released by an earthquake is the stress energy built up as a result of plate tectonic forces.
What type of fault causes earthquakes?
Subduction Zones and Transform faults can produce Earthquakes.
Which two types of plate movement produce the biggest earthquakes?
continental and oceanic
Which boundaries can produce earth quakes?
Earthquakes almost always occur at transform boundaries.
What term describes specific areas where the earths plates move against each other and produce earthquakes?
fault lines
What term describes areas where the earths plates move against each other and produce earthquakes?
fault lines
Why doesn't the Mariana trench produce earthquakes?
You are misinformed, It DOES produce earthquakes.
Why do most earthquakes occur near tectonic plate boundaries?
Tectonic plates move along, against, or away from eachother at their boundaries. These movements produce earthquakes
Why do Earthquakes most commonly occur near tectonic plate boundaries.?
Tectonic plates move along, against, or away from eachother at their boundaries. These movements produce earthquakes
What Earthquakes produce that travel though Earth?
Earthquakes produce seismic waves that travel through the Earth.
What or which of the above boundaries can produce earthquake's at which of those is the largest earthquakes produced?
Transform boundaries produce the largest earthquakes.
Why does an earthquake zone have earthquakes if no volcanoes are there?
Volcanoes are not the primary cause of earthquakes. Most earthquakes result from the stresses created by tectonic plates moving past or against one another. At transform boundaries there is no mechanism to produce volcanoes, but the movement of the plates will still cause earthquakes. Stresses within a plate can also cause earthquakes.
What are the geologic factors that produce earthquakes?
It depends
Describes organisms or genotypes that are homozygous for a specific trait and thus always produce offspring that have the same phenotype for that trait?
True-breeding
What do earthquakes that occur on seafloor produce?
tsunamis are likely
Do Tsunamis produce earthquakes?
no the earthquake produces the tsunami
