GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Earthquakes occur along faults, which are fractures between blocks of rock that allow the blocks to move relative to one another. Faults are caused by the bumping and sliding that plates do and are more common near the edges of the plates.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -Tectonic plates move very slowly relative to each other, typically a few centimetres per year, but this still causes a huge amount of deformation at the plate boundaries, which in turn results in earthquakes.

Detailed explanation-4: -Most of the active fault lines in the world are located in the Ring of Fire that virtually encircles the Pacific Ocean. This region is responsible for about 81% of all the earthquakes on the planet.

Detailed explanation-5: -the Circum-Pacific belt, the Alpide belt, the mid-Atlantic Ridge.