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Elanso [62]
3 years ago
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Earthquakes are caused by which type of tectonic plate movement?

Geography
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Rashid [163]3 years ago
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Answer :About 80% of earthquakes occur where plates are pushed together, called convergent boundaries. Another form of convergent boundary is a collision where two continental plates meet head-on.

VLD [36.1K]3 years ago
5 0

Answer:

About 80% of earthquakes occur where plates are pushed together, called convergent boundaries. Another form of convergent boundary is a collision where two continental plates meet head-on. The sliding motion of transform boundaries also causes a lot of earthquakes. The strongest and most famous earthquake along the San Andreas fault hit San Francisco in 1906.

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