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...

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...

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

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...

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

geophysics and geochemistry. Subduction zones are defined by an inclined zone of earthquakes, the Wadati–Benioff zone, that dips away from the trench and...

Mediterranean Ridge accretionary complex. It has a well-defined Wadati–Benioff zone of seismicity, which demonstrates the relatively shallow dip of its...

Agency), researching deep (subduction zone) earthquakes. His name is attached to the Wadati–Benioff zone. It was Wadati's 1928 paper on shallow and deep earthquakes...

lithosphere remains rigid (as demonstrated by deep earthquakes along Wadati–Benioff zone) to a depth of about 600 kilometres (370 mi). Continental lithosphere...

Thus, that pattern of earthquakes is known as a Wadati–Benioff zone. From the early 1930s, Benioff also worked on creating electric musical instruments;...

occurring at depths of around 5–35 km below the Wadati–Benioff zone. This would imply that the topmost zones of the oceanic lithosphere provide a significant...

"Slide 18". Island Arcs. "A Wadati–Benioff zone (also Benioff–Wadati zone or Benioff zone or Benioff seismic zone) is a planar zone of seismicity corresponding...

located east of Mindanao. It dips to the west as represented by the Wadati–Benioff zone which can be detected to at least 200 km (120 mi). The mainshock...

convergent boundary of the Australian and Pacific Plates. Along the Wadati–Benioff zone, earthquake activity has been observed as shallow, intermediate,...

tensional tectonics due to rifting of an existing island arc. Benioff zone or Wadati-Benioff zone: This is a plane that dips under the overriding plate where...

Kuenen) 1951 – Alfred Rittmann links subduction, volcanism and the Wadati–Benioff zone 1953 – Maurice Ewing, Bruce Heezen, and Marie Tharp discover the...

Rossiter Benedict Benford's law – Frank Albert Benford, Jr. Benioff zone – see Wadati–Benioff zone, below Bennett pinch – Willard Harrison Bennett...

Earthquake occurrence along the Java trench in front of the onset of the Wadati–Benioff zone: Beginning of a new subduction cycle?, Tectonics, 26, TC1005 10°19′S...

Llullaillaco and the Peru-Chile Trench 300 km farther west. The Wadati-Benioff zone lies at 180 km depth. The region is dominated by large volcanic cones...

typically occur at oceanic-continental convergent boundaries, along Wadati–Benioff zones. The evidence for deep-focus earthquakes was discovered in 1922 by...

per cubic unit. Moment magnitude scale Plate tectonics Seismology Wadati–Benioff zone Stacey, Frank (2008). Physics of the Earth (4 ed.). Cambridge, UK:...

2 in/year) north to south migration over the last 1.75 million years. A Wadati–Benioff zone exists at about 200 km (120 mi) depth and the volcano's magma has...

seafloor spreading Kiyoo Wadati (Japanese, 1902–1995) – researched subduction zone earthquakes; lent name to Wadati–Benioff zone Alfred Wegener (German...

convergent boundary of the Indo-Australian and Pacific Plates. Along the Wadati–Benioff zone, earthquake activity has been observed as shallow, intermediate,...

as the Wadati–Benioff zone. Paired metamorphic belts were envisaged as a set of parallel metamorphic rock units parallel to a subduction zone displaying...

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

about 20 kilometres (12 mi) thick, and the lower extremity of the Wadati–Benioff zone is about 164 kilometres (102 mi) deep. The events of the 1257 eruption...

These zones later became known as Wadati–Benioff zones, or simply Benioff zones, in honor of the seismologists who first recognized them, Kiyoo Wadati of...

slab's Wadati–Benioff zone is over 200 km (120 mi) deep at Tauranga and Mount Taranaki and more than 75 km (47 mi) deep under the Taupō Volcanic Zone. Earthquakes...