GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Transform plate boundaries are where plates slide laterally past one another, producing shallow earthquakes but little or no volcanic activity.

Detailed explanation-2: -Movement in narrow zones along plate boundaries causes most earthquakes. Most seismic activity occurs at three types of plate boundaries-divergent, convergent, and transform.

Detailed explanation-3: -At convergent plate boundaries, where two continental plates collide earthquakes are deep and also very powerful. In general, the deepest and the most powerful earthquakes occur at plate collision (or subduction) zones at convergent plate boundaries.

Detailed explanation-4: -These plates are always moving apart, bumping, or sliding past each other at about the same speed that your fingernails grow. Earthquakes usually occur where two plates are running into each other or sliding past each other.

Detailed explanation-5: -Over 90% of earthquakes – including almost all of the largest and most destructive ones – happen at or near so-called plate boundaries, where the 15 or so major subdivisions (“plates”) of the Earth’s crust and uppermost mantle move towards, alongside, or away from each other.