The region is situated where the Philippine Sea Plate is sandwiched ... Huang says finding active areas of subduction zones where earthquakes tend to occur, and examining why earthquakes occur ...

Prompt and accurate monitoring data to enable appropriate disaster response The Philippines is in a Western Pacific Plate subduction zone. As in the case of Japan, earthquake and volcano disasters ...

Mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORBs), located far from subduction zones, are typically thought to be unaffected by subduction processes. However, some MORBs display arc-like geochemical signatures ...