How to Use subduction in a Sentence

subduction

noun

• What’s more, none of the belt’s quakes will be as large as those triggered by subduction zones.
  — National Geographic, 11 Oct. 2019
• That type of process does not happen often in subduction zones.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Sep. 2017
• In some subduction zones, sediments may be swept in along with the down-going plate.
  — National Geographic, 23 June 2020
• Meanwhile, cooling slabs of crust sink in subduction zones to the bottom of the mantle.
  — Jenny Wu, Science | AAAS, 21 Jan. 2021
• And the Tonga Trench is the liveliest subduction zone of all.
  — Susan Casey, Outside Online, 22 Oct. 2019
• This is a process called subduction, in which even tectonic and oceanic plates bend to the will of gravity.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 10 June 2019
• The problem is that there are so few seafloor seismometers to collect data in subduction zones.
  — Jeffrey Marlow, The New Yorker, 26 July 2022
• When those plates collide and one slides beneath the other, water gets pulled into the subduction zone.
  — Jill Kiedaisch, Popular Mechanics, 15 Nov. 2018
• In this zone, earthquakes and tsunamis are often caused by subduction – where one plate slides below another.
  — Krystina Shveda, CNN, 7 Feb. 2023
• These mountains are entering the subduction zone and are melting.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2024
• This zone will move to the Atlantic Ocean through subduction invasion.
  — Devika Rao, theweek, 5 Mar. 2024
• The shallow subduction zone might also encourage slow slip in a way that deeper zones do not, Fagereng says.
  — Bypaul Voosen, science.org, 21 June 2023
• There’s no evidence of subduction on Venus, which is why it can’t truly be said to have tectonic plates.
  — Brianna Barbu, Discover Magazine, 12 July 2021
• The Aleutian megathrust is a major subduction zone fault, an area where two tectonic plates meet.
  — Shane Croucher john Feng, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
• Most places where the Earth erupts are at subduction zones, where one tectonic plate is thrust beneath another.
  — Author: Scott Wilson, Sarah Kaplan, Anchorage Daily News, 24 May 2018
• Drones reveal earthquake hazards hidden in the abyss There is no force on Earth quite like a subduction zone.
  — Eva Frederick, Science | AAAS, 15 Nov. 2019
• The Aleutian megathrust is a major subduction zone fault, an area where two tectonic plates meet.
  — Hannah Parry john Feng, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
• The Aleutian megathrust is a major subduction zone fault, an area where two tectonic plates meet.
  — Shane Croucher john Feng, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
• The shutdown of major subduction zones would mean that the Earth’s tectonic plates stop clashing and jostling about.
  — Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
• The Mariana Trench, the deepest point in the world, occurs in a subduction zone.
  — Umair Irfan, Vox, 11 May 2018
• These ancient rocks appear to have been made by subduction, when two plates collide to thrust one of them deep into Earth's mantle.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 20 Nov. 2023
• The larger the slab of lithosphere sinking at a subduction zone, the faster the plate moves, and the stronger the seismic activity.
  — National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2023
• The subduction zone could reshape life in the Northwest United States.
  — NBC News, 5 Dec. 2024
• The average length of time between subduction zone quakes off the Oregon coast is 246 years.
  — oregonlive, 27 Jan. 2023
• While a quake on that fault is less likely than a subduction zone quake, a large temblor on a fault running right through Portland could be far more deadly.
  — Kale Williams, OregonLive.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• As with carbon, subduction of the great continental and oceanic plates are thought to have brought water into the depths of the planet.
  — National Geographic, 24 Oct. 2019
• The region has most of Earth's subduction zones, where oceanic plates slide under the lighter continental plates.
  — Fox News, 24 June 2020
• But as in all subduction zones around the world, the movement builds frictional stresses between the two plates that result in frequent earthquakes.
  — Seth Mydans, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2022
• Most of the world’s earthquakes and tsunamis are caused by the movements of tectonic plates – and the most powerful often occur in subduction zones.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 12 Aug. 2024
• While that’s far less powerful than a magnitude 9 subduction zone megaquake, a quake of that size near any city in the state would be devastating.
  — Sandi Doughton, The Seattle Times, 13 July 2019