GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The grinding action between the plates at a transform plate boundary results in shallow earthquakes, large lateral displacement of rock, and a broad zone of crustal deformation.

Detailed explanation-2: -Transform boundaries typically produce large, shallow-focus earthquakes. Although earthquakes do occur in the central regions of plates, these regions do not usually have large earthquakes.

Detailed explanation-3: -Earthquakes are common at these boundaries, as stress builds up and is then released in a sudden jolt of energy. At transform boundaries, two plates slide past each other horizontally. This motion creates energy that is released in the form of earthquakes.

Detailed explanation-4: -An example of a transform-fault plate boundary is the San Andreas fault, along the coast of California and northwestern Mexico. Earthquakes at transform faults tend to occur at shallow depths and form fairly straight linear patterns.

Detailed explanation-5: -Transform boundaries are created when tectonic plates slide past each other horizontally along strike-slip faults or transform faults. Strike-slip faults are large cracks or fractures in the Earth’s crust where the transform boundary movement occurs.