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

Transform boundaries -- the faults where plates slide past each other -- act like natural scissors, slicing across the plate and isolating fragments that form new microplates while subduction continues nearby.

From Science Daily • Oct. 25, 2025

North of Cape Mendocino, California, the Juan de Fuca plate dives beneath North America along a megathrust subduction zone known as Cascadia.

From Science Daily • Oct. 22, 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

Just off its east coast, deep beneath the seafloor, giant chunks of Earth’s lithosphere and crust are being sucked beneath the country in a process called subduction.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland