Mohammed Jazara's Science Notebook

What is the relationship between plate boundaries, earthquakes and volcanoes? Scientists have seen many differences and similarities between them and so did I. I have noticed that all are on the borders of the ocean or on the ocean. For example Japan, California, Haiti and Indonesia all have a high chance of getting an earthquake. If you haven't noticed they are all countries that are right on border between a huge bodies of water particularly the oceans.

 

As I mentioned before they are all on the borders meaning that they all have something to do with water. Like volcanoes explode when new lava comes and pushes out. The magma chamber has hit the special point it erupts. There are two types of volcanoes, the volcanic and the rift volcanism. One process involves the oceanic crust to form the collision between plates. These two types of volcanoes differ because one brings the plates together while the other separates them. They occur the most in convergent boundaries according to Google Earth's plate boundaries’ lines.

 

The relationship between the earthquakes and volcanoes don't include all earthquakes. The earthquakes that do relate to the volcanoes are by when the magma cracks the volcanoes erupts. Once it erupts it causes a small earthquake maybe even big. Then the magma starts building again, then squirts lava (volcano) and shakes the ground (earthquake).

 

Now all three relate because the plate tectonics are formed with volcanoes, which start when the magma cracks and squirts lava. When lava is squirted from a mountain, it is in a form of a volcano erupting. Once this volcano erupts it shakes the ground causing an earthquake. This is when all dots of the three factors connect. They are not all directly connected but in the form of how each one is created, they all involve each other.

 

Now earthquakes are not only formed when a volcano erupts and not all plate tectonics are spread or brought together when a volcanoes’ magma opens a crack for the lava to squirt out of. But they at one point they do. When the volcanoes’ magma spreads becomes close to each other its a form of a convergent boundary which all three can relate too. This is the relationship between plate boundaries, earthquakes and volcanoes.