The majority of earthquakes around the world can be found along continental plate boundaries, either due to divergent plate boundaries where new oceanic crust is generated, or at convergent plate boundaries where collisions and subduction can occur. Earthquakes can also be caused by the motion of magma below the surface as it moves, melts, and displaces native rock causing it to break, but these are usually smaller earthquakes and often aren’t recorded at the same level of detail around the world as stronger earthquakes.
