Most of the world's largest earthquakes happen around the rim of the Pacific Ocean. The map below shows the locations of the 15 largest earthquakes in the world since 1900.

World's 15 largest earthquakes since 1900 - located in the circum-Pacific Belt - concentrated around the coastal regions of Chile, Indonesia, japan and Alaska

Refer to the map of Earth's plates below, and determine which type of plate boundary is most often associated with these earthquake events.

The earth plates move to each other in Convergent boundaries plates. The convergent boundary plate can be ocean/ocean, ocean/continental, and continental/continental convergent boundary plate. They are also considered a destructive boundary plate because the plate constantly collides with each other.

For the ocean continental convergent boundary plate, oceans and a continental plate collide. The collision leads to subduction which is the movement of the continental plate below the ocean plate. This movement of the continental plate beneath the ocean plate can result in earthquakes

From the map, most of the location affected are characterized by Ocean/ Continental convergent boundary, that is why earthquake often occurs in these locations.