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Risk Management Solutions (RMS; Newark, Calif.) says that, "The lesser Antilles, to the east [of Haiti] can experience significant subduction-related earthquakes, which can be much larger than the Haiti event but are generally deeper and offshore."
TechWeb 2010
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To the east, in the Ionian Sea, oceanic lithosphere making up the northern margin of the African plate is subducted beneath the southern margin of the Eurasian plate (the Calabrian Arc), the volcanoes of the Aeolian Islands being the result of the subduction-related melting processes.
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