Sentences with phrase «subduction zone boundary»
The triggering effect was probably accentuated by an offshore «sedimentary wedge» — a mass of sedimentary rock piled up at the edge of the subduction zone boundary offshore from the North Island's east coast.
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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 map shows that, so far, almost all of the aftershocks have occurred along the subduction zone that lies on the boundary of the Pacific plate.
This regularity could shed light on the workings of tectonic plate boundaries called subduction zones, and it might even turn out to herald a season of heightened risk for larger quakes.
The GPS network detected the slow slip events occurring on the Hikurangi subduction zone plate boundary in the weeks and months following the Kaik?ura earthquake.
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.