The color pattern of the earthquakes reveals that the earthquakes get deeper from right to left or if you prefer east to west the subduction zone dips to the west.
How do earthquakes become deeper?
The most profound earthquakes take place near the center of subducting slabs, oceanic plates that drop into the Earth's mantle from convergent plate boundaries, where a thick oceanic plate collides with a less dense continental plate and descends beneath the latter.
Are deeper earthquakes worse than shallow?
More harm is typically caused by shallow earthquakes than by deeper earthquakes. The distance that deep earthquake seismic waves must travel to reach the surface causes them to lose energy.
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