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Is an earthquakes a convergent or transform?

An earthquake can occur at divergent, convergent, or transform plate boundaries. However, transform boundaries are most commonly associated with earthquakes due to the intense stress caused by the plates sliding past each other.


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.


Where are earthquakes or volcanoes likely to occur?

Earthquakes are likely to occur along tectonic plate boundaries where there is movement and stress in the Earth's crust. Volcanoes are likely to occur at convergent plate boundaries, divergent plate boundaries, and hotspots where magma from the Earth's mantle reaches the surface.


Earthquakes are most likely to occur near?

Earthquakes are most likely to occur near tectonic plate boundaries, where tectonic plates interact and cause stress to build up and release in the form of seismic activity. These boundaries include convergent boundaries where plates collide, divergent boundaries where plates separate, and transform boundaries where plates slide past each other.


Where do most present day faults occur?

Most present-day faults occur along boundaries. The three types of geologic boundaries are transform boundaries, divergent boundaries and convergent boundaries.


Most divergent plate boundaries are situated along the crests of?

oceanic ridges


Do most severe earthquakes occur at plate boundaries or in the middle of plates?

Plate Boundaries


Are all divergent boundaries located at mid ocean ridges?

No. Divergent boundaries can occur on continents. The most notable example of this is the East African Rift.


Which plate boundaries volcanoes are found along?

Volcanoes typically occur at two different types of plate boundaries. These two plate boundaries are: the diverging plate boundary where plates separate, and the converging plate boundaries where one plate is beneath another one at subduction zones.


The mountains most commonly found at divergent plate boundaries are .?

Fault block mountians


At what kind of plate boundary do most underwater volcanoes occur?

Most underwater volcanoes occur at divergent plate boundaries, where tectonic plates move away from each other, allowing magma to rise up and form new crust. This process creates underwater mountain ranges known as mid-ocean ridges.


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.