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Why are most earthquakes and volcanoes located near plate boundaries?

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Why are most earthquakes and volcanoes located near plate boundaries?

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The plate boundaries rub against each other. When there is movement, there is an earthquake. Volcanoes are from magma at the edge of these boundaries leaking past the edge and coming up through an opening in the earth’s crust.