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Most earthquakes and volcanoes occur at the dividing lines between sections of the Earth's crust as the sections move in relation to each other. The sections are called tectonic plates, and where they collide with each other it is called a fault or fault line.
If two plates are unable to move easily past each other, pressure can build until it exceeds the friction between the plates. When a plate suddenly moves or slides, the energy release is felt as an earthquake on the surface.
Volcanoes get their liquid rock (magma, or lava) from the melting of crustal material, usually as it is forced beneath another layer of crust into the hotter region called the mantle (the continents and other land masses "float" on a layer of dense liquid rock).
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Do most earthquakes and volcanoes occur within plates or along the boundaries of plates?
Most earthquakes and volcanoes occur along the boundaries of tectonic plates, where the movement of the plates causes stress and forces to build up. These boundaries are classified as convergent, divergent, or transform, each with distinct seismic and volcanic activity associated with their movements.
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.
Do volcanic eruptions and earthquakes occur ONLY at the boundaries?
No. Volcanoes can be found at hot spots away from plate boundaries. These volcanoes can produce earthquakes. Earthquakes can also occur at areas of ancient geologic activty such as failed rifts and can occur as a result fo glacier retreating.
What spheres of the Earth is most directly affected by earthquakes and volcanoes?
The lithosphere is most directly affected by earthquakes and volcanoes. Earthquakes occur when there is movement along faults in the lithosphere, while volcanoes are associated with the release of molten rock, or magma, through the lithosphere to the surface.
What are the belts called that most earthquakes and volcanoes occur on?
Earthquakes and volcanoes often occur along the boundaries of tectonic plates. These boundaries are known as plate boundaries or fault lines. The most active areas for earthquakes and volcanoes are the Ring of Fire around the Pacific Plate and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge where new oceanic crust is formed.
Do volcanoes occur in oceans and earthquakes occur on land?
Earthquakes and volcanoes both occur in land and ocean. =)
Earthquakes occur most often along the?
Earthquakes occur most often along the boundaries of tectonic plates.
Volcanoes and earthquakes are likely to occur?
Yes, they are likely to occur.
Do most earthquakes and volcanoes occur within plates or along the boundaries of plates?
Most earthquakes and volcanoes occur along the boundaries of tectonic plates, where the movement of the plates causes stress and forces to build up. These boundaries are classified as convergent, divergent, or transform, each with distinct seismic and volcanic activity associated with their movements.
Earthquakes and occur at plate boundaries?
Volcanoes
Why do earthquakes occur at volcanoes?
To release pressure.
Where do earthquakes and volcanoes mostly frequently occur?
Underground Earthquakes occur along fault lines. Volcanoes are all over the world but a good place to find one is in the Ring of Fire.
What are volcanoes and earthquakes likely to occur?
If you mean "where" earthquakes and volcanoes are most likely to occur it is in what's called the "ring of fire" which is the coastal ring around the Pacific Ocean.
Why do volcanoes and earthquakes occur on plate boundries?
earthquakes occur because plates move and they over lap causing an earthquake.
What energy transfers occur in volcanoes and earthquakes?
by killing people
Where do earthquakes and volcanoes commonly occur?
Along fault lines
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.
