GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Earthquakes happen every day all over the world, along both tectonic plate edges and interiors. Earthquakes occur along faults, which are fractures between blocks of rock that allow the blocks to move relative to one another.

Detailed explanation-2: -The vast majority of earthquakes occur at the boundaries of tectonic plates, but did you know that some occur within the interior of a plate?

Detailed explanation-3: -Along divergent boundaries like the mid-Atlantic ridge and the East Pacific Rise, earthquakes are common, but restricted to a narrow zone close to the ridge, and consistently at less than 30 km depth. Shallow earthquakes are also common along transform faults, such as the San Andreas Fault.

Detailed explanation-4: -Earthquakes happen when rock below the Earth’s surface move. Causing the Earth’s surface to crack the closer you are to the plate boundaries the more pressure you get do too more force which is an earthquake.