Sentences with phrase «potential subduction zones»

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However, the seismic potential of crustal faults within the forearc of the northern Cascadia subduction zone in British Columbia has remained elusive.

Therefore developing a better understanding of earthquake and tsunami behavior and potential is a priority for local communities, for the wider Indian Ocean, and for related subduction zones.»

This subduction has created a collision zone with the potential to generate huge earthquakes and accompanying tsunamis, which happen when faulted rock abruptly shoves the ocean out of its way.

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.

When experts talk about the potential «Big One,» they mean a Cascadia subduction zone earthquake.