What happens on a transform plate boundary?

Answer 1

At a Transform Boundary, an earthquake happens because the plates slide against each other.

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When oceanic or continental plates slide past each other in opposite directions, or move in the same direction but at different speeds, a transform fault boundary is formed. No new crust is created or subducted, and no volcanoes form, but earthquakes occur along the fault.

Answer 2

A transform fault is one of the 4 types of boundaries where tectonic plates of the Earth's crust meet; it is a location where two plates meet in such a way that they slide past each other, moving parallel to the line of the fault. The liquid mantle and soft lower crusts slide past each other rather smoothly in a motion called shearing, while the solid and brittle upper crusts are stuck together by static friction.

Eventually enough force is built up by the movement of the lower crusts to overcome the static friction and suddenly allow the adjacent upper crusts to slip past each other. Tremendous waves of energy are released by this sudden slip, causing the Earth's crust to vibrate violently in an earthquake; in a major slip, the energy waves can create structural damage many miles from the location of the slip (the "epicenter").

Answer 3

At a transform plate boundary, two tectonic plates slide horizontally past each other. This movement can cause earthquakes as stress builds up due to friction along the boundary. There is typically no creation or destruction of crust at transform plate boundaries.

Answer 4

it is when there is a fault which is when two plates rub up against each other like the California fault

Answer 5

a plate boundary is somthing that meets up and makes a soonarmy, earthquake.

Answer 6

Plates slide past each other horizontally.

Answer 7

They move away from each other.