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    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...
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    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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  • }}\right),\ {\boldsymbol {\omega }}=\nabla \times \mathbf {u} } Fluid Mechanics Wadati–Konno–Ichikawa–Schimizu 1+1 iut+((1+|u|2)−1/2u)xx=0{\displaystyle \displaystyle...
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  • Restorff Von Zeipel theorem – Edvard Hugo von Zeipel Wadati–Benioff zone (a.k.a. Benioff zone) – Kiyoo Wadati and Hugo Benioff Wahlund effect – Sten Gösta William...
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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...
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    and locate the earthquakes generating the seismic waves. In 1931 Kiyoo Wadati showed how he had measured, for several strong earthquakes in Japan, the...
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    zone, is not an oceanic trench. Trenches, along with volcanic arcs and Wadati-Benioff zones (zones of earthquakes under a volcanic arc) are diagnostic...
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    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...
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    theory of seafloor spreading Kiyoo Wadati (Japanese, 1902–1995) – researched subduction zone earthquakes; lent name to Wadati–Benioff zone Alfred Wegener (German...
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  • and locate the earthquakes generating the seismic waves. In 1931, Kiyoo Wadati showed how he had measured, for several strong earthquakes in Japan, the...
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