Release of water shakes Pacific Plate at depth
Wednesday, January 11, 2017 - 14:11
in Earth & Climate
Tonga is a seismologists' paradise, and not just because of the white-sand beaches. The subduction zone off the east coast of the archipelago racks up more intermediate-depth and deep earthquakes than any other subduction zone, where one plate of Earth's lithosphere dives under another, on the planet.