Only 5% of all earthquakes occur within the:
A) Mediterranean-Asiatic belt.
B) circum-Mediterranean belt.
C) interiors of plates and mid-oceanic ridges.
D) passive margins of continents and mid-oceanic ridges.
E) shields of continents and mid-oceanic ridges.
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