In transforming faults, earthquakes usually have serious consequences on the Earth's crust because the plates slide over each other without moving up or down (True)
A transforming fault is a geological term to refer to those limits between tectonic plates that are characterized by having a lateral displacement of one plate concerning the other. There are two types of transform faults:
- Those that cut the oceanic ridges, dividing them into short and straight segments, to adapt the ridge and the expansion of the ocean floor to the spherical geometry of the Earth.
- Those that constitute the passive edges between continental tectonic plates, which move laterally without producing or destroying the lithosphere. For example, the San Andreas fault (California, USA).
The transforming faults that constitute the passive edges between tectonic plates are those that produce great disasters when an earthquake occurs because the depth of the earthquakes is shallow and neither plate overlaps the other, releasing more energy. So the answer is True.
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