I love their 3D graphics. Most quakes are relatively shallow. IIRC, I've only found about 3 places on the whole planet where they are greatly deeper.
IIRC, one is off Fukashima. One is Mt Etna/Sicily area of Italy and I'm not certain of the other one. Might be near Sumatra. I don't think it's NZ or Iceland.
Stroppy me claims that the dead admiral was a black hat that was trying to start a war and he was suicided.
Chili is a bit deeper than average. But not near as deep as the 3 or so other areas I found.
OK. It must be NEW ZEALAND: BTW, YOU CAN LEFT CLICK AND ROTATE THE GRAPHIC UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT ETC.
Continuing to check.
FRom Amarian Samoa South and East of Fiji also has very deep quakes way above average. Also--East of New Caledonia up through the Solomon Islands but not as deep as South of American Samoa and East of Fiji.
The Indonesian, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippine etc. area has quakes somewhat deeper than average around the world but still not near as deep as the few areas I found.
The Japan, Kamchatsky area is moderately deeper than average--particularly japan--but not as deep as I'd recalled it being.
The Sicily, Italy area is definitely one of the deepest (typically) of all the frequent quake areas I've checked on years ago and just now.
Iceland & the rest of Europe are not that deep, comparatively, on average.
The East African Rift area and East Africa, Madagascar areas are also typical in the relatively shallowness of their usual quakes.
And, Alaska, Pacific NW, California etc are also rather typically shallow:
Therefore what, I have no clue and no geologists have given me a good statement of the implications either. But it is very interesting that only those 3-4 areas typically have very deep quakes--particularly of any significant magnitude.