Many earthquakes occur near mid-ocean ridges but do not destroy or form new crust. Instead, plates slip past each other. Which kind of boundary is found at these earthquake locations?

At a transform boundary, plates slide horizontally past one another, so crust is neither created nor destroyed. Mid-ocean ridges are often offset by transform faults where earthquakes occur as ocean plates slip past. Therefore, the boundary is a transform boundary between two ocean plates.

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