Plate Tectonics Why do we have earthquakes?

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Plate Tectonics Why do we have earthquakes?

Two Tectonic Plates That Separate  DivergentBoundary 

Mid- Atlantic Ridge Indian Ridge  DivergentBoundary 

 Divergent Boundary 

Iceland

Rift Valley in Africa

Two tectonic plates slide past each other.

Visualizing Physical Geography Copyright © 2008 John Wiley and Sons Publishers Inc. Andes Mountains

Ocean-Ocean Convergent Boundary Aleutian Trench

Aleutian Islands 21

Continent-Continent Convergent Boundary

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