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Why is it safer to live in the middle of a plate instead of near a plate boundary?

Why is it safer to live in the middle of a plate instead of near a plate boundary-example-1

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Because when you live in the middle of one, you have less rocking and less moving of the earth under you. If you were to live near a plate, the plate would move up, down, or side to side and make your house or any building move up and down.
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