Explore: Subduction Zones

mantle largely under its own weight. Earthquakes are common along subduction zones, and fluids released by the subducting plate trigger volcanism in the

45°N 124°W / 45°N 124°W / 45; -124 The Cascadia subduction zone is a 1,000 km (620 mi) long convergent plate boundary, about 100–200 km (70–100 mi)

current subduction zones of Indonesia and New Guinea were created (about 70 million years ago), followed finally by the New Zealand subduction zone (about

collision boundaries. Subduction zones occur where an oceanic plate meets a continental plate and is pushed underneath it. Subduction zones are marked by oceanic

active zones: the "western active zone" and the "eastern active zone". The western active zone is bounded to the west by east-dipping subduction zones like

The Tonga–Kermadec subduction zone (also known as Kermadec–Tonga or Tonga–Kermadec-Hikurangi subduction zone) is a convergent plate boundary that stretches

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

subduction zone is a convergent plate boundary on the seafloor along the eastern margin of the Lesser Antilles Volcanic Arc. In this subduction zone,

lies within the zone of complex interaction between several tectonic plates, involving multiple subduction zones and one large zone of strike-slip, all

subduction zone, such as the Sunda megathrust. However, the term is also occasionally applied to large thrust faults in continental collision zones,