subduction

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The July 29 earthquake struck in the Kuril-Kamchatka subduction zone with a magnitude of 8.8, making it the sixth largest earthquake recorded worldwide since 1900.

From Science Daily • Jan. 6, 2026

Their combined results point to a far livelier early Earth, suggesting that widespread subduction and the growth of continental crust may have begun several hundred million years earlier than earlier theories proposed.

From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2025

Although each episode takes millions of years, these gradual stages together mark the death of a subduction zone.

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

When the crust reached the end of its journey at the boundary with continents, it plunged back into the Earth in a process known as subduction.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson