Sentences with phrase «classic subduction zone»

Geologically speaking, Cascadia is a classic subduction zone, where one plate of Earth's crust plunges beneath another, building up stress and occasionally relieving it in large earthquakes.

For example, the Caribbean coast of northern Colombia resembles a classic subduction zone with the potential for tsunamigenic M > 8 earthquakes at millennial time scales, but the absence of a large earthquake since 1492 is cause for complacency among local populations.