What is the connection between tectonic plates,volcanoes and earthquakes?
The movement of tectonic plates results in their inevitable convergence in some places. The types of convergence include consuming, where one plate passes under another (subduction), collisional, where both crumple and maintain pressure against each other, and transform, where the plate margins slip against one another. Consuming plate margins, where one plate is subducted beneath the other, results in melting of some of the subducted plate at depth. Some of that magma rises to the surface of the other plate, forming volcanoes. The ongoing collison of the plates produces earthquakes, particularly when the motion between the plates is temporarily stopped by one plate becoming jammed. Whenm motion begins, it is usually associated with a major earthquake. Volcanoes also produce local earthquakes, due to motion along associated faults, and due to explosive activity within the magma chamber. Collisional plates, where both continue to push against one another without being subducted, create
