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Yes, the west coast of the United States is the most likely to get earthquakes.
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the Pacific Ocean
The west Pacific Ocean earthquakes usually occur along the joins in the continental plates which lie offshore in most cases.
On the west coast of the US.
The west coast has all sorts of plate boundaries, young mountains, and faults, thus more quakes. so when the plates rub together an earthquake occurs.
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This answer might bore you a bit, because I bet you thought they occur strongest where people live. Deep in the Pacific Ocean, aswell as in the middle of the Atlantic are massive mountain chains caused by tectonic activity. These can be seen by looking at a map of our sea floors. They are the longest mountain chains in the world. and are home to the most brutal of all earthquakes. But to answer the question in terms of where people live, the most earthquakes occur near indonesia, the west coast of South america, primarily Chile and Peru, and also the west coast of North America.
Most earthquakes do occur on fault lines.
No. The west coast is the most likely place for a volcanic eruption.
I can't really say in detail .....but it is most likely that its because there is a default in that area ....like in California ..there are several defaults there and thousands of earthquakes occur each day there. BECAUSE its a active earthquake zone." :D Earthquakes also occur in Alaska and also; off the coast of Mexico....
Most come through California or islands on the west coast.