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Convergent plate boundaries where subduction occurs experience the deepest earthquakes.

This is because in a subduction zone one (oceanic) lithospheric plate is being forced beneath another down into the mantle. Stresses build up within the descending pate at great depth causing earthquakes with focusses at much greater depths than earthquakes at other plate boundaries.

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