What type of earthquake leads to a larger tsunami?

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Ellis

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Jasmine Marsland

There are many types of earthquakes that can cause tsunamis but the most common one that can lead to a high magnitude of an earthquake is from the destructive/ convergent plate boundary or what you call a subduction zone where the oceanic plate subduct under the continental plate

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