Comments on: What is the significance of deep earthquakes? http://earthquakequestions.com/what-is-the-significance-of-deep-earthquakes.htm Everything You Want To Know About Earthquakes Sat, 28 Jan 2012 23:45:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: outcrop http://earthquakequestions.com/what-is-the-significance-of-deep-earthquakes.htm/comment-page-1#comment-7548 outcrop Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:03:14 +0000 http://earthquakequestions.com/what-is-the-significance-of-deep-earthquakes.htm#comment-7548 It means the subducting slab ("deep" earthquakes ONLY occur at subduction zones) is stil competent and indicates several things: 1) A high subduction velocity, that has not allowed; 2) significant melting to make the plate "plastic" (i.e. the rocks are still brittle and hence the earthquake) It means the subducting slab ("deep" earthquakes ONLY occur at subduction zones) is stil competent and indicates several things:

1) A high subduction velocity, that has not allowed;
2) significant melting to make the plate "plastic" (i.e. the rocks are still brittle and hence the earthquake)

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