The Wadati-Benioff Zone is a dipping area of earthquake foci that tracks the path of a subducting tectonic plate as it sinks into the mantle. It can extend to depths of up to 700 km. It provides visual evidence that one plate is being forced beneath another into the Earth’s interior. ANSWER: (C) Wadati-Benioff Zone
In a subduction zone, the planar zone of seismicity produced by the down-going oceanic plate is called the: (A) Mohorovičić Zone (B) Gutenberg Zone (C) Wadati-Benioff Zone (D) Richter Zone
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