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Earthquakes occur when stress builds up within the Earth's lithosphere exceeding the strength of the rock mass along a (normally pre-existing plane of weakness known as a) fault which most commonly occurs at the boundaries of tectonic plates.

The largest earthquakes tend to occur at convergent and transform boundaries where two plates are either colliding, or sliding past each other respectively.

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