Subduction zones occur at collision boundaries where at least one of the colliding lithospheric plates contains oceanic crust. In accord with plate tectonic theory, collision boundaries are sites where lithospheric plates move together and the...

The process whereby one TECTONIC PLATE slides beneath another at the junction where two such plates are moving towards each other. See also:...

In geology, a subduction zone is an area on Earth where two tectonic plates meet and move towards one another, with one sliding underneath the other and moving down into the mantle, at rates typically measured in centimeters per year. An oceanic plate...

Birth of a subduction zone A massive earthquake that struck the seafloor south of New Zealand in May appears to have signaled the very early stages of subduction there -- the same process that long ago created deep ocean trenches around the...

Catching subduction in the act As the Pacific plate inches northwest, its leading edge dives into the mantle of the earth, forming some of the deepest trenches in all of the world's oceans. This recycling process, called subduction, has been going on...

IAF strikes Hamas military post in Gaza-Two Palestinian militants are dead following an Israeli airstrike against a Hamas military post in southern Gaza. The State is on high alert for terror acts in reprisal.Cost of resettling Jewish evacuees from Gaza estimated $1 billion dollars-The cost...

A powerful 7.9-magnitude earthquake shook Peru's coast near the capital, killing at least 115 people and injuring more than 1,000 others in cities farther to the south, the country's health minister said early Thursday.Seventeen people were killed when a church collapsed in the city of...