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Most earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur near the collision of two lithospheric plates. These collisions may eventually result in fractures of the brittle underlying upper mantle. Fractures may cause the layers of crust to move vilolently as during an earthquake, or allow a path for molten magma to escape through the upper mantle to the surface in an eruption.

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