Distribution of Earthquakes
- Clustered on plate boundaries
- Most powerful are destructive of conservative boundaries
- Can trigger tsunamis amd landslides
Destructive- oceanic crust is being subducted beneath a continental plate PHILLIPPINES
(or) Where two collide (shallow intermediate and deep earthquakes)
Constructive- plates are moving apart (large numbers of low-magnitude earthquakes) most under the sea
Conservative - Plates slide past each other (shallow earthquakes high magnitude) SAN ANDREAS FAULT
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