The transition from crustal compression and strike-slip faulting to subduction, as studied by Wannamaker and colleagues in the Marlborough region 1, is not a one-way journey: subduction zones may ...

Plates at subduction zones typically move just a few centimeters per year. But when accumulated stress at these convergent plate boundaries releases suddenly, the plates can slip several meters ...

The Cascadia subduction zone, where the oceanic Juan de Fuca plate descends beneath the overlying North American plate, extends 1100 km from northern California to northern Vancouver Island.

splitting the subduction zone into segments," and that "in an earthquake event, any number of these segments might be involved," said Popular Science. "The more that slip at once, the larger the ...