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Nazca fault

Nazca fault (Nazca plate) 20221120

 

The Nazca plate is an oceanic tectonic plate in the southeastern Pacific Ocean that shares both convergent and divergent boundaries, corners multiple triple junctions, contains three seamount chains, overrides four hotspots, and is responsible for the creation of the Andean orogeny. Over the last half-century, it has garnered much attention from the scientific and political community due to the hazards it poses to the populated west coast of South America. With oblique subduction underneath the South American plate, this active convergent margin is the longest subduction zone in the world, stretching 7500 km and produced the largest earthquake ever recoded on earth, the M 9.5 Valdivia earthquake.

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Uploaded on February 22, 2023
Taken on November 20, 2022