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What type of plate boundary with the most occurrences of earthquake?
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Transform boundaries are particularly likely to cause earthquakes.
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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 type of plate boundary is most directly associated with mountain building?
Convergent plate boundaries.
What tectonic causes caused the kashmir earthquake?
Kashmir is on the boundary of two colliding tectonic plates: the small Indian plate that underlies most of India and Pakistan, including much of Kashmir; and the vast Eurasian plate that underlies Europe, China, Russia, and much of the Middle East.
What type of plate boundary are most earthquakes found at?
All three type of Earthquakes (Shallow-seated, Medium-seated and Deep-seated) occur only at the Convergent plate boundary. At divergent plate boundary we find mostly Shallow-seated Earthquakes only.
How many plates are in earth that causes quakes?
All of the earth's tectonic plates have the potential to shift and cause an earthquake. However most of the time they only have the potential and some are more likely to shift than others.
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.
Which type of boundary do most earthquakes occur why?
Plate boundaries around Japan are convergent boundaries ie two plates are sliding towards each other. Japan has been formed as a result of the subduction of the Philippine Sea Plate beneath the continental Amurian Plate and Okinawa Plate to the south, and subduction of the Pacific Plate under the Okhotsk Plate to the north.
Why type of plate boundary are most earthquakes near?
convergent boundary
What type of plate boundary is foud where the gorda plate meets the north american plate?
The boundary between the Gorda plate and the North American Plate is a transform boundary. Transform boundaries that lie at near land are the most destructive, which is the case in Southern California, which is close to this plate boundary.
At what kind of plate boundary do most underwater volcanoes occur?
divergent boundary
Which plate is covering most of two continents?
convergant boundary and divergant boundary
What is one of the most famous transform boundary?
Is the San Andreas Fault were an oceanic plate went under a continental causing a volcanic eruption and earthquake made by Christina Moore
What type of plate boundary is most likely found in the Atlantic Ocean?
Divergent Boundary
Where do volcanoes errupt the most?
Where there is a tectonic plate boundary
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).
Which area of a tectonic plate is most likely to experience an earthquake?
The edges of the plate
What plate boundary is the mariana islands on?
In this region, where the western subducting edge of the Pacific plate plunges beneath the Philippine plate, is found the most volcanically active convergent plate boundary on Earth.
