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Start: Paleozoic

"The present day mountain belt was developed mainly during the Mesozoic to Recent"

Opening of the Atlantic MOR

Easterly direction of the slab's dip

http://www.geo.arizona.edu/geo5xx/geo527/Andes/intro.html

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Topography and depth down to the Moho over a North-Soutprofile . The vertical (E-W lines) define the highly seismically attenuated region.

http://www.geo.arizona.edu/geo5xx/geo527/Andes/geology.html

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"The convergence of the Nazca and South American Plates has deformed and pushed up limestone strata to form towering peaks of the Andes, as seen here in the Pachapaqui mining area in Peru"

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Friction from the subducting oceanic plate creates fracture and deformation. This is the reason for the small frequent earthquakes that occur along the fault

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Shallow, less powerful quakes along the coast at the plate boundaries

Deeper, stronger quakes farther inland

Some very deep quakes (+600 km) are an effect of  internal deformation of the subducting Nazca plate

https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2010/1083/e/

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3.7cm movement east yearly on the nazca plate

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3.7cm movement east yearly on the nazca plate

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37 degrees at the Northern End
33 degrees in Southern End

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subduction zone is the cause for the mountainous topography on the western side of the continent . Lack of tectonic movement is represented by the plateau on the eastern side. The subducting slab has also caused volcanoes to be present on the western side of the continent, these are part of the Pacific Ring of Fire.

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Height of the Andes could double in just 2 - 4 Ma (making the average mountain 11,886 meters tall!)

Delamination process

http://uk.reuters.com/article/science-mountains-andes-dc-idUKN0531341020080605?pageNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=0

Megathrust quakes (+8.5) due to "locked" plates could be extremely disastrous to human infrastructure

http://www.livescience.com/13941-megathrust-earthquakes-chile-japan-subduction-zones.html

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Nazca Plate (oceanic lithosphere) + South American Plate (continental crust) = Andes Mountains

Atacama (a.k.a. Peru-Chile) Trench

Volcanism