The occurrence of earthquakes in the absence of seafloor spreading, oceanic trenches, or volcanic activity is a characteristic feature of
A) convergent boundaries between plates.
B) divergent boundaries between plates.
C) subduction zones.
D) transform fault boundaries between plates.
D
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