Subduction zones are the most important sites of material exchange between the crust and mantle on Earth. They are also the locations where the largest deposits of strategic metals, such as copper, ...

By imposing velocity boundary conditions in the vicinity of the subduction zone, we enforce a geometry for subduction, producing a slab with a realistic thermal structure. To make the model ...

Abstract: A model of subduction-zone anisotropy for south and central North Island, New Zealand is presented by integrating the observations of shear-wave anisotropy from anomalous surface-wave ...

Subduction zones are the most important sites of material exchange between the crust and mantle on Earth. They are also the locations where the largest deposits of strategic metals, such as copper ...

Geologist Robert Yeats, author of 'Earthquake Time Bombs', has highlighted the risks associated with the presence of several large US cities in the Pacific Northwest's Cascadia subduction zone.

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The outer coastline had tsunami waves of under three feet. The March 2011 Tohoku earthquake was the result of a subduction zone, where the Pacific plate moves under the Honshu plate. This movement ...

The Hikurangi Subduction Zone is where the Pacific plate drops westward under the Australian plate. It sits just off the east coast of the North Island. Subduction zones generate the largest ...

"This is the first large scale ocean bottom seismic experiment conducted at an Atlantic subduction zone," said Dr. Catherine Rychert, formerly an Associate Professor at the University of ...

Magnitude: 9.5 Date: May 22, 1960 Details: This earthquake is the most powerful ever recorded. It occurred in a subduction zone where the Pacific plate dives under the South American plate. Magnitude: ...