California has been plagued with earthquakes over the centuries; earthquakes that are a severe danger to life and land. Earthquakes are prevalent because in California
A) lies directly over the Ring of Fire.
B) lies on a continental plate that is falling under the oceanic plate it meets.
C) the Pacific plate is moving northwest, scraping horizontally past North American plate.
D) the Pacific plate and the North American plate are meeting at a convergent plate boundary.