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Tectonic plates boundaries are the sites ofearthquakes and volcanoes. Why?

Tectonic plates boundaries are the sites ofearthquakes and volcanoes. Why?

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  • Mostly earthquake and volcanoes occurred due to the moments of the plates, especially when the plates interact with each other at their edges or boundaries.
  • There are two types of plate movements occurred due to heat released by magma inside the earths crust. They are converging plates and diverging plates:
  1. Converging plate - In this process 2 or more plates come together and are compressed with each other, it may compress with each others edge and form a mountain like structure or it may, subject to overlap which is called subducting plates in this way formation of a higher region take place that is a plateau.
  2. Diverging plate - In this process 2 or more plates move away from each other and form a valley like structure. It is not always possible that every structure, form due to tectonic plate movement can be seen, maybe it is under the ocean sometimes.
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