Many people understand the damage that can be caused to structures, roads, bridges and utilities by ground shaking in these long - lasting types of earthquakes, such as the one that's anticipated on the Cascadia
Subduction Zone between northern California and British Columbia.
Not exact matches
They simulated earthquakes with magnitudes
between 9.0 and 9.6 originating at different locations along the Aleutian - Alaska
subduction zone, a 3,400 - kilometer (2,113 - mile) long ocean trench stretching along the southern coast of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands where the Pacific tectonic plate is slipping under the North American plate.
«The only way to explain the subsidence of the islands is to have a rupture... in the very deep part of the
subduction zone,
between 40 and 60 km (25 to 40 miles) depth,» Feuillet said.
The Tohoku - Oki earthquake occurred in a «
subduction zone,» a boundary
between two tectonic plates where one plate is diving beneath another — in this case, the Pacific plate dives beneath the Eurasian plate just east of Japan.
The billion - year time lag
between the earliest, «proto -
subduction» and the full onset of plate tectonics can be explained by the slow, painstaking development of weak
zones within the plates, he proposes.
The study of new linkages
between the two types of seismic activity, published in Nature Geoscience on Sept. 11, may help promote better understanding of earthquake hazard posed by
subduction zones, a type of fault responsible for some of the world's most powerful earthquakes.
The study site, Stardust Bay, faces a creeping part of the eastern Aleutian
Subduction Zone, which is sandwiched
between the rupture areas of historical earthquakes in 1946 and 1957 that generated tsunamis with devastating consequences to coastal communities around the Pacific Ocean.
The jagged red and brown lines northeast of India show two possible positions of the trench (the
subduction zone)
between India and Eurasia depending on whether the India - Eurasia collision occurred 52 million years ago or 43 million years ago.
The most threatening earthquakes in Cascadia are those associated with the Cascadia
subduction zone, which is the tectonic plate boundary
between the subducting oceanic Juan de Fuca, Gorda, and Explorer Plates and the over-riding continental North America Plate.