Most earthquakes occur far away from plate boundaries.?

Most earthquakes occur far away from plate boundaries.

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Bella2011-07-25T21:18:09Z

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False. Most earthquakes occur at plate boundaries. The reason for this is that the tectonic plates are always moving. This causes them to slide against one another. At convergent boundaries, they are pushing together, so one plates is subducting beneath the other, or they push upward, creating mountain ranges.

At transverse boundaries, they move past one another, catching and then moving on.
At divergent boundaries, they move away from one another. This usually causes volcanic activity, but earthquakes occur there as well.

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Anonymous2011-07-23T15:20:22Z

False.

Earthquakes away from plate boundaries occur either because of a mantle plume around a hot spot, like Hawaii or Yellowstone Park. or along former plate boundaries that are not completely inactive, like the New Madrid fault in the USA and associated fault systems, like the ones around the Nemaha Ridge in eastern Oklahoma.

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Anonymous2016-05-15T03:46:31Z

Is that a question? And no plate boundaries and faults are close together or the same thing I'm pretty sure :)

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Philosoraptor2011-07-23T15:11:05Z

false *facepalm

https://www.e-education.psu.edu/earth501/content/p4_p4.html

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