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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.

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