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What causes earthquakes and at what types of plate boundaries are earthquakes common?

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Earthquakes are caused by movement/shifts of tectonic plates.

Most earth quakes happen in the “Ring of Fire,” or the “Circum-Pacific Seismic Belt.”
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Earthquakes can occur anywhere in a plate and can be caused by any boundary type. But they are much more common near convergent boundaries.

Step-by-step explanation:

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