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

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subduction boundary on Earth, the Kermadec–Tonga subduction zone, and consequently has the highest density of submarine volcanoes. The Tonga–Kermadec...

Island. Together with the Tonga Trench to the north, it forms the 2,000 km (1,200 mi)-long, near-linear Kermadec-Tonga subduction system, which began to...

65 km (40 mi) north of Tongatapu, Tonga's main island. It is part of the highly active Kermadec-Tonga subduction zone and its associated volcanic arc,...

process occurs is known as a subduction zone, and its surface expression is known as an arc-trench complex. The process of subduction has created most of the...

Tonga. Located in the Haʻapai island group, it is a steep-sided composite cone with a summit caldera. It is part of the highly active Kermadec-Tonga subduction...

Antilles subduction zone. Also not a trench is the New Caledonia trough, which is an extensional sedimentary basin related to the Tonga-Kermadec subduction zone...

Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai is 65 kilometres (40 mi) north of Tongatapu, the country's main island, and is part of the highly active Tonga–Kermadec Islands...

Trench Tonga Trench Kermadec Trench Hikurangi Trough Subduction zones around the Pacific Ocean do not form a complete ring. Where subduction zones are absent...

is subducting under the Kermadec plate at the Kermadec Trench north and east of New Zealand but the direction of subduction reverses south of the Alpine...

a dozen aftershocks exceeded magnitude 6. The Kermadec-Tonga subduction zone runs east of the Kermadec Islands and marks the boundary between the Australian...

structure. His research focused on the Kermadec-Tonga subduction zone and the South American subduction zone, and determined that in both locations,...

island in the kingdom of Tonga. It 70 km northwest of Vavaʻu and is part of the highly active Kermadec-Tonga subduction zone and its associated volcanic...

September 2009 in the southern Pacific Ocean adjacent to the Tonga–Kermadec subduction zone. The submarine earthquake occurred in an extensional environment...

and the clockwise rotating Tonga plate under which the Pacific plate is subducting in the Kermadec-Tonga subduction zone. The back arc spreading in the...

backarc basins of the southwest Pacific and the migration of the Tonga and Kermadec Trenchs to the east. Shear extrusion followed between 23.3 million...

2 cm/year (0.79 in/year). It is the southern portion of the Tonga–Kermadec–Hikurangi subduction zone and its main feature is the Hikurangi Trough. The tectonics...

subducting seamounts. By contrast, the Kermadec and Tonga trenches represent the parts of the Kermadec-Tonga subduction zone where the oceanic crust of the Pacific...

the 2009 tsunami hit Samoa. Tonga–Kermadec Ridge – Oceanic ridge in the south-west Pacific Ocean underlying the Tonga–Kermadec island arc Bird, P., An updated...

The lavas contain variable amounts of subduction related components inherited from the Tonga subduction zone to the east in the tholeiitic magma series...

active Lau-Havre-Taupō back-arc basin, which lies behind the Kermadec-Tonga Subduction Zone. Mayor Island and Mount Taranaki are recently active back arc...

considered an extension of the trench. The Puysegur Trench mirrors the Kermadec Trench and Tonga Trench north of New Zealand. The Puysegur Trench stretches for...

spreading and subduction processes exist today. It is now the inactive part of an eastward-migrating, 100 million year old Lau-Tonga-Havre-Kermadec arc/back-arc...

plate. The magma ascends to form an arc of volcanoes parallel to the subduction zone. Volcanic arcs are distinct from volcanic chains formed over hotspots...

slow subduction of older, dense lithosphere. This is supported by the distribution of hadal zones, most of which in continent-ocean subduction zones. The...

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Island is called the Kermadec-Tonga subduction zone. This subduction zone is associated with the volcanism that gave rise to the Kermadec and Tongan islands...

Zealand in the south, also encompasses Tuvalu, Tokelau, Samoa, Tonga and the Kermadec Islands to the west, the Cook Islands, Society Islands and Austral...

of what is occurring off of New Zealand's North Island (see Kermadec-Tonga Subduction Zone). The Macquarie Ridge represents both the different relative...