Crustal plates scrape and slide past each other along faults at their boundaries. For example, the Pacific and North American Plates slide past each other along the San Andreas Fault in northern California.

What natural hazard usually results when crustal plates scrape and slide past one another?
A.
tornadoes
B.
tsunamis
C.
hurricanes
D.
earthquakes

Question

Crustal plates scrape and slide past each other along faults at their boundaries. For example, the Pacific and North American Plates slide past each other along the San Andreas Fault in northern California.

What natural hazard usually results when crustal plates scrape and slide past one another?
 A. 
tornadoes
 B. 
tsunamis
 C. 
hurricanes
 D. 
earthquakes

sxdsouls · Answer

When oceanic or continental plates slide past each other in opposite directions, or move in the same direction but at different speeds, a transform fault boundary is formed. No new crust is created or subducted, and no volcanoes form, but earthquakes occur along the fault. Well as they said It's D this can also help smh https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/permanent/planet-earth/why-are-there-ocean-basins-continents-and-mountains/plate-tectonics/when-plates-move-past-each-other#:~:text=When%20oceanic%20or%20continental%20plates,earthquakes%20occur%20along%20the%20fault.

iamgay · Answer

When crustal plates scrape and slide past one another, they release built-up energy. This energy travels through the Earth as earthquakes.  and it is d