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...

region where typical seismicity originates at 500 km (310 mi) depth on the Wadati–Benioff zones associated with subduction along the Sangihe and Mindanao...

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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...

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

zone, is not an oceanic trench. Trenches, along with volcanic arcs and Wadati-Benioff zones (zones of earthquakes under a volcanic arc) are diagnostic...

and locate the earthquakes generating the seismic waves. In 1931 Kiyoo Wadati showed how he had measured, for several strong earthquakes in Japan, the...

and locate the earthquakes generating the seismic waves. In 1931, Kiyoo Wadati showed how he had measured, for several strong earthquakes in Japan, the...

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

sedimentary basin as expected for a current or recently subducting feature. The Wadati-Benioff zone associated with a south-dipping subducted slab from Solomon...

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

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subducted under the North Island at the margin currently. The subducting slab's Wadati–Benioff zone is over 200 km (120 mi) deep at Tauranga and Mount Taranaki...

and the Okinawa Trough. An active volcanic front lies 100 km above the Wadati-Benioff zone (a planar zone of seismicity at the interface between the subducting...

subducting lithospheric slabs, and this is particularly true for the IBM Wadati–Benioff zone (WBZ). Katsumata & Sykes 1969 first outlined the most important...

summit of 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...

plate, shallow thrust faulting beneath the forearc, and steeply dipping Wadati–Benioff zones extending to 200 km (120 mi) depth, with at the surface, active...

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

magnitudes empirically came in 1931 when the Japanese seismologist Kiyoo Wadati showed that the maximum amplitude of an earthquake's seismic waves diminished...

for the Kamchatka-Kuril Trench as well as for volcanism in Kamchatka. The Wadati-Benioff Zone lies c. 100 kilometres (62 mi) beneath Kurile Lake. Kurile...

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

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

professor at the Imperial University in Tokyo (University of Tokyo). Kiyoo Wadati (1902–1995) was a seismologist, who won the Imperial Prize in 1932. Teiji...

volcano is 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...

Pacific becomes complex. Hundreds of these earthquakes occur outside the Wadati-Benioff zone (top of slab) along a horizontal plane. The eastward subduction...

He was appointed professor of the Institute of Geology in 1955. When the Wadati–Benioff zone (earthquake foci in the mantle) is less than 200 km deep, tholeiitic...

incipient subduction zone consisting of eastward-dipping thrust faults since no Wadati–Benioff zone is detected. Earthquakes and tsunamis are produced on thrust...

the system around Wellington the subduction slab deep earthquakes of the Wadati–Benioff zone are off shore to the west. The Kermadec microplate, which is...

developments in geology, notably the discoveries of seafloor spreading and Wadati–Benioff zones, and this led to the rapid resurrection of the continental...