subduction

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However, seismic instruments have occasionally detected earthquake origins beneath continents and away from subduction zones, in some cases as much as 50 miles below the Moho.

From Science Daily • Feb. 20, 2026

The study revealed that subduction zones don't fail in one catastrophic break but die in stages, through a process known as "episodic" or "piecewise" termination.

From Science Daily • Oct. 25, 2025

For years, researchers suspected these fragments were evidence of dying subduction zones, but the exact mechanism was unclear.

From Science Daily • Oct. 25, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 2025

There, the Pacific Plate slides beneath the North American Plate in what’s known as a subduction fault.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland