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subduction zone

noun

  1. geology a long narrow, often arcuate, zone along which subduction takes place

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subduction zone

  1. A convergent plate boundary where one plate subducts beneath the other, usually because it is denser. The western coast of South America is roughly coincident with a subduction zone in which a plate consisting of ocean floor is subducting beneath the continental mass of South America.

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New research offers the theory that the San Andreas fault and the Cascadia subduction zone could produce devastating back-to-back earthquake disasters.

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They are two of the West Coast’s most destructive generators of huge earthquakes: the San Andreas fault in California and the Cascadia subduction zone offshore of California’s North Coast, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia.

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The authors suggest that, for thousands of years, large earthquakes on the Cascadia subduction zone were quickly followed by large earthquakes on the northern San Andreas fault.

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In 1700, a Cascadia subduction zone earthquake is believed to have measured around a magnitude 9.

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“This is, like, most of the time. The only exception in the last 2,500 years was 1906 — that was the only event” in which a major quake on the northern San Andreas fault wasn’t preceded by a huge quake on the Cascadia subduction zone, according to the analysis of available data.

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