Tectonic plates can spread subduction like a contagion — jumping from one oceanic plate to another - Live Science

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Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate

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dives underneath another, drive the world's most devastating earthquakes

. How do these danger zones

and tsunamis

come to be? A study in Geology