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Deep seated earthquakes, often severe in magnitude, generally occur beneath subduction zones, as one plate is forced deep into the mantle beneath another.

The site of this destruction is another kind of plate boundary: a subduction zone.

I think a lot of scientists worldwide wondered whether this particular subduction zone - the Japan trench, the southern part - could ever produce a great earthquake.

How do earthquakes arise in undersea subduction zones, which account for 90 per cent of all seismic energy released worldwide?

Serpentinite is a dark green mineral used in decoration and jewelry. In nature, it is formed when sea water infiltrates into Earth's upper mantle, at depths that can reach 200 km in subduction zones.

In the past 300 years, no earthquake nearly that large — nothing larger than magnitude-eight — had struck in the Japan subduction zone.

That's why they [are] kind of parallel to coast lines in the Pacific, in the so-called Ring of Fire, where the subduction zones are.

In the past few centuries, the subduction zone off the coast of Sendai has generated earthquakes of up to magnitude 8 or so, but nothing as powerful as a 9, which releases 30 times more energy.

The tectonic boundary between the Yangtze Continent and Qinling orogenic belt is a thrust-strike slip tectonic zone rather than a intracontinental subduction zone.

In 2007, off the coast of Japan, it became the first mission to study subduction zones, the area between tectonic plates that is the birthplace of many earthquakes.

Volcanism at Sabancaya is fueled by magma generated at the subduction zone between the Nazca and South American tectonic plates.