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tectonic plates move against each other essentially because of the movement of molten rock underneath the earth's surface or crust. This movement causes the plates to rub against each other.

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What events occur when the tectonic plates move and grind against each other?

When tectonic plates move and grind against each other, this is an earthquake. If the moving of tectonic plates were to occur beneath the ocean's surface, the result would be a tsunami.


Why are most of the earthquakes and volcanoes located at the border of the tectonic plates?

Beacause plates, at tectonic, boundaries shift against each other.


How do Japan get earthquake?

The tectonic plates near it rubbed against each other.


What would happen if tectonic plates glided against each other?

A small earthquake


What happens when two tectonic plates oush against each other?

it would brake


A kind of force that gets exerted as tectonic plates push against each other?

This answer is popstres


What is a kind of force that gets exerted as tectonic plates push against each other?

Friction


How do eathquakeaccur?

tectonic plates under the earth's crust collide or rub against each other


Do all the tectonic plates move in the same direction?

No, tectonic plates move in different directions. Some plates move towards each other (convergent boundaries), some move away from each other (divergent boundaries), and others slide past each other horizontally (transform boundaries).


How do earthquakes occur on planet earth?

the tectonic plates of the earth move and scrape against each other


Where plates tectonics move past each other?

Plates tectonics move past each other at transform boundaries, where two plates slide horizontally past each other. This movement can cause earthquakes as the plates grind against each other. An example of a transform boundary is the San Andreas Fault in California.


What do tectonic plates move?

Tectonic Plates move by trying to push past each other and by trying to slide past each other.