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The plate boundaries that have the largest magnitude earthquakes are convergent plates. Convergent plates are moving together and eventually collide. These plates are usually along the edge of an ocean and next to a continent.
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What type of boundary has the most earthquakes with high magnitudes?
Convergent boundaries where large scale thrust faulting occurs tend to have the largest magnitude earthquakes. For wxample the subduction boundary between the Pacific plate and the South American plate was responsible for the largest magnitude earthquake ever recorded (the magnitude 9.5 Valdivia earthquake that occurred in 1960 in Chile).
What is the connection between mountains and plate boundaries?
mountains are usually formed on plate boundaries because earthquakes happen at plate boundaries. earthquakes can form mountains.
Which of the plate boundaries can produce earthquakes?
Convergent boundaries.
Is an earthquakes a convergent or transform?
Earthquakes occur at all plate boundaries.
What plate boundaries experience the deepest earthquakes?
Subduction zones have the deepest earthquakes.
Did the largest magnitude earthquake in the past year occur at a subduction zone plate boundary?
Yes. All known earthquakes of magnitude 9.0 or greater have occurred at subduction boundaries.
What type of boundary has the most earthquakes with high magnitudes?
Convergent boundaries where large scale thrust faulting occurs tend to have the largest magnitude earthquakes. For wxample the subduction boundary between the Pacific plate and the South American plate was responsible for the largest magnitude earthquake ever recorded (the magnitude 9.5 Valdivia earthquake that occurred in 1960 in Chile).
What is the connection between mountains and plate boundaries?
mountains are usually formed on plate boundaries because earthquakes happen at plate boundaries. earthquakes can form mountains.
Do earthquakes occur in plate interiors?
yes earthquakes happen at all types of plate boundaries but most of them occur at destructive, collisional, and conservative plate boundaries
Do earthquakes most often occur at faults that are away from plate boundary?
Earthquakes infrequently occur away from plate boundaries. Most earthquakes occur at plate boundaries because of the stress caused by the interacting plates.
Which of the plate boundaries can produce earthquakes?
Convergent boundaries.
What plate boundary do earthquakes occur?
Earthquakes occur at all plate boundaries.
Do earthquakes often occur at at faults that are away from plate boundaries?
Yes, but not as often as earthquakes happen near plate boundaries
What plate boundary do earthquakes usually occur on?
earthquakes only happen at the edge of tectonic plates because of them moving which causes the 'quake' so there are never any BIG earthquakes in the UK because it is in the middle of a tectonic plate
Do most severe earthquakes occur at plate boundaries or in the middle of plates?
Plate Boundaries
Which type of plate boundaries produce the most devastating earthquakes?
Convergent plate boundaries.
At what boundaries do the largest earthquakes occur?
It is along the boundary between tectonic plates that most earthquakes occur. These plate boundaries are zones of differential movement between the plates. The tectonic plates, great masses of shifting crust, move into, along or away from each other at their boundaries. Forces of almost unimaginable magnitude build up pressures that cannot possibly be measured. And this occurs between masses of rock and earth that do not want to shift. When they "let go" in response to the pressure, a quake can occur.
