Is earthquake are most likely to occur on the boundary line of tectonic plate?
The boundary line of the tectonic plate is known as the fault line, this is where the tectonic plates crush or pull apart from each other. This happens because of the moving molten rock under the crust which moves sections of the earth’s crust generating the tectonic plates. The fault lines are places of unstable geology and even though the tectonic plates move very slow (around 1-3cm’s yearly) they are very large and a large tectonic plate crushing into another tectonic plate generates the mountain ranges of the world. Earthquakes are most likely to occur on the fault lines because when this large force is being placed on another tectonic plate, the tectonic plate applying this crushing force must go aether up or down on each other. This motion on the plates colliding generates friction, and the force at moments becomes to great for a section of the tectonic plate to handle and slips. This causes a kinetic ripple effect know as a earthquake. For example New Zealand is an island on the
