While this causes “strike slip” quakes which aren’t as powerful as those seen in “subduction zones”, they still have the capacity to hit magnitudes of 7 to 8. While Sagaing has been hit ...

This earthquake occurred along the Java-Sumatra subduction zone, where the Australian tectonic plate moves underneath Indonesia’s Sunda plate. But to the east of Java, the subduction zone has become ...

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This is called the Cascadia Subduction Zone, and it runs broadly along the coastal area from Vancouver in Canada to Northern California in the US. The fear is that the area could see an earthquake ...

Subduction zones are the most important sites of material exchange between the crust and mantle on Earth. They are also the locations where the largest deposits of strategic metals, such as copper, ...