Question

Which of the following statements about earthquakes is false A.) THE deepest earthquakes occur along convergent plate boundaries B.) Earthquakes cannot occur along transform plate boundaries C.) When rocks move in any direction along a fault, an earthquake occurs D.) The epicenter of an earthquake is located on Earth's surface directly above the focus.

Answer 1

i beleive that it is (C). but when i did my resaerch it really didnt give me word for word so that my answer

Answer 2

correct answer is: B

Shallow earthquakes are the result of

plate separating along a divergent plate boundary; they CAN

also occur along transform plate boundaries.

When rocks move in any direction along a fault, an earthquake occurs.That is a TRUE statement