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Nature Geoscience 1, 253–257 (1 April 2008) | doi:10.1038/ngeo159

Rupture across arc segment and plate boundaries in the 1 April 2007 Solomons|[nbsp]|earthquake

Frederick W. Taylor , Richard W. Briggs , Cliff Frohlich , Abel Brown , Matt Hornbach , Alison K. Papabatu , Aron J. Meltzner & Douglas Billy

The largest earthquakes are generated in subduction zones, and the earthquake rupture typically extends for hundreds of kilometres along a single subducting plate. These ruptures often begin or end at structural boundaries on the overriding plate that are associated with the subduction of prominent bathymetric features of the downgoing plate.