EARTH SCIENCE
SEISMOLOGY
Question
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The deepest earthquakes
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The strongest earthquakes
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Only weak earthquakes
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A diagonal pattern of Earthquakes due to subduction
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Detailed explanation-1: -Deep, large magnitude earthquakes commonly occur at convergent plate boundaries. Earthquakes at convergent plate boundaries are distributed with predictable locations and depths.
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: -Convergent boundaries, where two plates are moving toward each other, are of three types, depending on the type of crust present on either side of the boundary-oceanic or continental . The types are ocean-ocean, ocean-continent, and continent-continent.
Detailed explanation-4: -Continentācontinent convergence results when two continents collide. Oceanācontinent convergence occurs when oceanic crust is subducted under continental crust. More items