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A transform boundary is a fault zone with two plates that are horizontally sliding past each other. The sudden release of energy when the rocks fracture causes an earthquake.

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Because they happen along strike-slip faults as the blocks move thenthey occur

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Small Earthquakes, shallow focus

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What events are most likely to occur along a transform boundary?

The answer is Earthquakes


What events are most likely to occur along transform boundary?

The answer is Earthquakes


What types of plate boundaries are associated with deep earthquakes?

All of them. For example: the earthquake of 2010 in Chile happened along a convergent fault while the 2010 earthquake in Haiti happened along a transform fault. Source: I am just a genius...


What type of plate boundary do most earthquakes occur near to or along?

they occur at transform boundaries


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 does transform boundary means?

two plates slip past each other and cause earthquakes along


What is the relationship between the earthquake regions and the plate boundaries?

Earthquakes are very common along transform boundaries. An example of a transform boundary is the San Andreas fault in California.


What is most likely to happen along a transform fault boundary?

At these boundaries, the rocks grind and slide against each other, causing earthquakes.


Was the earthquake a transform boundary in japan?

No. it was along a convergent boundary.


Why might frequent smaller earthquakes be desirable along a transform fault boundary?

because the plates are on the floor of the ocean and then doesnt make that big of a mess!


What things occur along transform boundaries?

earthquakes


Are Earthquakes common along transform boundaries?

yes