A city that suffered a major earthquake, but is not on a plate boundary, is w) Los Angeles, California x) San Francisco, California y) Tokyo, Japan z) Charleston, South Carolina

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ANSWER: Z -- CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA

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