What type of faults tend to produce the most destructive earthquakes?

What will be an ideal response?


Convergent plate boundaries with a subducting slab of oceanic lithosphere and an overlying plate form a megathrust fault. Because these large thrust faults lie beneath the ocean floor and experience vertical motion that can displace the overlying water, they are capable of generating destructive tsunamis.

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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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