Sentences with phrase «subduction zone lies»
The Cascadia subduction zone lies offshore from northern California to southwestern British Columbia, where two tectonic plates — the North America plate and the Juan de Fuca plate — come together to form an 800 - mile long earthquake fault.
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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.
The most hazardous swath of the northeastern Pacific lies along the Cascadia subduction zone (CSZ), a tectonic interface that parallels the coast and poses a seismic threat to cities such as Victoria, British Columbia; Portland, Ore.; and Eureka, Calif..
Because it lies just slightly west of the Cascadia subduction zone, the young seafloor is easily shoveled east beneath the North American Plate.
Popocatépetl, the second most active volcano in Mexico, lies above a subduction zone where one tectonic plate descends beneath another