Explore: Benioff Zones

A Wadati–Benioff zone (also Benioff–Wadati zone or Benioff zone or Benioff seismic zone) is a planar zone of seismicity corresponding with the down-going

towards the continent could be possible if, at some point, the ancient Benioff zones dipped toward the present ocean rather than toward the continent, as

subduction zones quakes occur at depths as great as 700 km (430 mi). These quakes define inclined zones of seismicity known as Wadati–Benioff zones which trace

surrounding this speculation, which also concludes the lack of the Wadati-Benioff zone, a zone that also depicts a shallow subduction between the Caribbean and

screenwriter and television producer Hugo Benioff (1899–1968), American seismologist and academic Wadati–Benioff zone Marc Benioff (born 1964), American businessman

as subduction. The subduction zone can be defined by a plane where many earthquakes occur, called the Wadati–Benioff zone. These collisions happen on scales

hundred kilometers into Earth. These zones later became known as Wadati–Benioff zones, or simply Benioff zones, in honor of the seismologists who first

430 mi)). These seismically active areas of subduction are known as Wadati–Benioff zones. Deep-focus earthquakes occur at depths where the subducted lithosphere

required. A type of seismic zone is a Wadati–Benioff zone which corresponds with the down-going slab in a subduction zone. The world's greatest seismic

lithosphere. They occur along a dipping tabular zone beneath the subduction zone known as the Wadati–Benioff zone. Preliminary evidence for the existence of