A global reanalysis of both short- and long-term deformation clarifies how obliquity affects strain partitioning in convergent plate boundaries.

The intersection of the deformation front with the SW-trending Nootka transform fault ... northern limit of the subduction zone. Megathrust events with magnitudes that may exceed 9 occur every 200-600 ...

In regions of convergence, one plate can sink under another in a subduction zone, or two colliding plates can form a mountain belt. At divergent boundaries, plates move away from each other and ...