Martha Kirtley … (detailed discussion follows)
Malaysia is on the Sunda plate, considered a “minor” plate because of its size. Here is a basic discussion.
That is a long way to go to tell people you don’t have a map … they are available online and you’ll learn more by looking for yourself.
The country lies within the plate, and thus it doesn’t have the usual strain buildup that would cause earthquakes. That being said, there are parts of Malaysia (close to Java, Indonesia and the Philippines) where tectonic forces are sufficient to generate earthquakes, as the 2015 Sabah Earthquake proved.
Yes, earthquakes do occur in Malaysia, although they are relatively rare and usually of low magnitude.
Before reading this answer you should know these basic geological terms:
: The plates make up Earth’s outer shell, called the Lithosphere. (This includes the crust and uppermost part of the mantle.A tectonic plate (also called lithospheric plate) is a massive, irregularly shaped slab of solid rock, generally composed of both continental and oceanic lithosphere.
Quartz is a mineral composed of silicon and oxygen atoms in a continuous framework giving an overall chemical formula of SiO2
Feldspar is the name given to a group of minerals distinguished by the presence o
A tectonic plate is a huge area of moving earth crust. A fault is where two different tectonic plates collide. Here is a map of the tectonic plates.