What theory explains the causes of earthquakes and volcanoes? continental drift hydrologics plate tectonics weathering

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It's plate tectonics, Earthquakes can be cause by ...

Destructive boundaries (where an oceanic plate goes under a continental plate which causes pressure to build up by friction, and when is released, causes an earthquake)
Or Conservative boundaries where 2 plates rub against each other causing pressure to build up and be released as an earthquake.

Volcanos can be made by...
constructive plate boundaries where 2 plates pull away from each other, leaving large cracks in the earth for magma to erupt.
As well as...

Hotspots which are on the plate itself not a boundary.

DiKsa [7]3 years ago

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Continental drift causes volcanoes to be formed and obviously causes earthquakes

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