Deep earthquakes and the Wadati-Benioff zone
Terremotos profundos y zona de Wadati-Benioff
- Date
- 1928 · confidence high
- Place
- Central Meteorological Observatory, Tokyo, Japan
- Credited to
- Wadati Kiyoo (and Hugo Benioff, 1949)
- People
- 👤 Kiyoo Wadati1902–1995
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
A demonstration that earthquakes occur hundreds of kilometres deep, aligned along an inclined plane beneath Japan. That zone was later interpreted as the plate sinking into the mantle.
What it led to
- the concept of subduction
- plate tectonics