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EQ1: Why are some locations more at risk from tectonic hazards? Categorise
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Destructive
Constructive
Transform (conservative)
Runny lava means that volcanoes are effusive rather than explosive
Powerful earthquakes as the crust sticks and pressure builds
New land is created
Rift valleys on land
Plates move in opposite directions, or at different speeds
Most earthquakes are fairly gentle
Explosive volcanoes with sticky lava
Two plates move apart
The denser oceanic plate is subducted and melts
Magma wells up to fill the gap – pillow lava under the ocean
The Pacific Ring of Fire, for example
Land is destroyed
Two plates collide
Earthquakes, no volcanoes
Fault lines – such as the San Andreas Fault