where are earthquakes found at a diverging plate boundary?

Question

its for my geo 3 class...

Answer 1

At spreading ridges, or similar extensional boundaries, earthquakes are shallow, aligned strictly along the axis of spreading, and show an extensional mechanism. Earthquakes in extensional environments tend to be smaller than magnitude 8.

Answer 2

Diverging plate boundaries are at the edges of crustal plates moving away from one another. This produces volcanic eruption as magma seeps out into the gap that is left, mostly underwater, but seen also at the surface where the activity produces small islands, eg Iceland - at the northern end of the mid-Atlantic diverging plate boundary. Small earthquakes can also occur on these boundaries at transform faults which cross the boundary.

Answer 3

They are found at all diverging boundaries. One thing that led to the discovery of plate tectonics was that seismic activity was concentrated to convergent, divergent and transcurrent plate boundaries.