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  2. Philippine Trench - Wikipedia

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    The Philippine Trench (also called the Philippine Deep, Mindanao Trench, and the Mindanao Deep) is a submarine trench to the east of the Philippines. The trench is located in the Philippine sea of the western North Pacific Ocean and continues NNW-SSE. [1] It has a length of approximately 1,320 kilometres (820 miles) and a width of about 30 km ...

  3. Subduction tectonics of the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    The Philippine Trench results from the westward subduction of The Philippine Sea plate beneath the Philippine Mobile Belt. The north-trending trench extends from the southeastern Luzon (15˚30’N) to the northeast of Halmahera (2˚N), with a total length of 1,800 km (1,100 mi) [ 19 ] [ 16 ] and a maximum depth of 10,540 metres (6.55 miles). [ 27 ]

  4. Manila Trench - Wikipedia

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    The Manila Trench near western Luzon and Mindoro, the Philippine Trench in the east, and the Philippine Mobile Belt. The Manila Trench is an oceanic trench in the Pacific Ocean, located west of the islands of Luzon and Mindoro in the Philippines. The trench reaches a depth of about 5,400 metres (17,700 ft), [8] in contrast with the average ...

  5. Emden Deep - Wikipedia

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    The Emden Deep, also known as the Galathea Deep or Galathea Depth, is the portion of the 10,540-metre-deep (34,580 ft) Philippine Trench exceeding 6,000-metre (20,000 ft) depths in the south-western Pacific Ocean.

  6. Philippine Mobile Belt - Wikipedia

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    The Philippine Mobile Belt is bounded on the west by the Manila Trench and its associates the Negros Trench and the Cotabato Trench, which subducts the Sunda plate under the Philippine Mobile Belt. To the east is the Philippine Trench and its northern associate, the East Luzon Trench which subducts Philippine Sea plate the Philippine Mobile ...

  7. East Luzon Trough - Wikipedia

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    The trench is located near the Philippine orogeny and located in the southeastern region of the Philippine Sea Plate. The depth of the trough is 5,700 meters. The East Luzon Trough formed during the Eocene and Oligocene epoch, 40–24 million years ago. [1] [2] [3] Immediately to the South of the East Luzon Trough is the Philippine Trench.

  8. 1976 Moro Gulf earthquake - Wikipedia

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    The Philippines is characterised by several complex and active subduction zones. The most geologically dominant in the region is the Philippine Trench located east of Mindanao. It dips to the west as represented by the Wadati–Benioff zone which can be detected to at least 200 km (120 mi). [3] [4]

  9. 2012 Samar earthquake - Wikipedia

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    The Philippine Mobile Belt is between the Eurasia plate and the Philippine Sea plate. The Philippine Sea plate is subducting along the Philippine Trench in this region. At the latitude of the earthquake, the Philippine Sea plate moves in the WNW direction at a velocity of approximately 100 mm/yr with respect to the Sunda plate.