Nicaragua is located on the Caribbean plate in Central America. It is not split between two different plate boundaries and yes.it is located near a plate boundary, that plate is the Cocos plate.
2) The Caribbean plate is moving towards the west, where is makes contact with the Cocos plate. It moves about 22 mm every year and it interacts with the Cocos plate like i said before. It is a subductive zone. (I think transform boundary)
3) So at the north end of the plate, the North American plate is subducting underneath the Caribbean plate. Also the cocos plate is subducting underneath the Caribbean plate as well.
4) There are no hazards.
5) Therebis a fault that goes through the capital city of Nicaragua called the quaternary fault. I could not find a picture of the fault. Also there are no folds.
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