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Seismic activity triggers both earthquakes and volcano eruptions, so usually both happen along fault lines, which cause seismic activity.

Answer 2: They occur in similar areas because of plate tectonics, (plates of the lithosphere). Since they move, when they crash together they cause earthquakes and create volcanoes, when the plates slide past each other they cause lots of earthquakes, and when they move apart magma from the earth's core creates a volcano and earthquakes happen along the fault lines.

See http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/earthsysflr/plates1.html for more info.

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Earthquakes and volcanoes often occur in the same place because they are both related to tectonic plate activity. The movement of tectonic plates can lead to both volcanic eruptions and seismic activity, creating a connection between the two phenomena. Subduction zones, where an oceanic plate collides with a continental plate, are particularly prone to both earthquakes and volcanic activity.

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this is because of platectonics volcanoes are formed when two plates underground crash into each other like this:

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casung the ground above to form a mountain but volcanoes have the same procces but with the top plates and the plates closer to the core of the earth therefore causing a volcanoe an eruption is caused by a small tremor underground but not felt above

an earthquake in the other hand is when two plates hit and slide against each other these two natural desasters happen in mostly the same place because of where that exact place is situated, weather in beetween two plates like Haiti or around the middle of a plate like Canada.

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Earthquakes and volcanoes are often found in the same area because earthquakes occur at plate boundaries, when plates are moving away from each other, being subducted under one another, or getting stuck while slipping past each other, and volcanoes also occur at plate boundaries, too, either convergent or divergent boundaries. At convergent boundaries, volcanoes typically are found on land, and at divergent, they are usually found in the ocean. Volcanoes can also be found in hot spots, NOT near plate boundaries, so this is why they are not ALWAYS found in the same areas.

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earthquakes and volcano eruptions happen together because:

an earthquake is caused by two plates rubbing together. the vibrations disturb the lava underneath the volcanoes, and hey presto you've got a volcanic eruption!

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Volcanoes are usually caused by a natural process in the earth's tectonic plates called subduction (where an ocean plate moves under a continental plate). The heat and pressure causes rocks to heat up and become magma, creating a volcano. The subducting of the ocean plate by snag on the continental plate, causing an earthquake.

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Why do earthquakes and volcanoes happen mostly in the same place?

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earthquakes and volcanoes happen in the same area because they are both on constructive margins.

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