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The Kuril–Kamchatka Trench or Kuril Trench (Russian: Курило-Камчатский жёлоб, Kurilo-Kamchatskii Zhyolob) is an oceanic trench in the northwest Pacific Ocean. It lies off the southeast coast of Kamchatka and parallels the Kuril Island chain to meet the Japan Trench east of Hokkaido .
The Kamchatka–Aleutian junction is located at the northern end of the Kuril–Kamchatka Trench. The Kamchatka–Aleutian triple junction is a triple junction of tectonic plates, of the fault–fault–trench type, where the Pacific plate, the Okhotsk plate, and the North American plate meet. [1] It is located east of the Kamchatka Mys ...
This oceanic trench runs from the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench in the west to the Yakutat Collision Zone in the east. Most of the trench ruptured in a sequence of earthquakes from east to west. [5] Earthquakes in 1938, 1946, 1948, and 1965 generally progressed westward with smaller earthquakes filling in any gaps. [5]
The 1958 Kuril Islands earthquake or Etorofu earthquake was a M w 8.3–8.4 earthquake that struck near the Kuril island of Iturup on November 6, 1958, at 22:58 UTC, or 09:58 on the 7th local time. The earthquake occurred as the result of shallow reverse faulting along the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench , and caused Modified Mercalli Intensity (MMI) X ...
The Japan Trench is an oceanic trench part of the Pacific Ring of Fire off northeast Japan. It extends from the Kuril Islands to the northern end of the Izu Islands, and is 8,046 metres (26,398 ft) at its deepest. [1] It links the Kuril–Kamchatka Trench to the north and the Izu–Ogasawara Trench to
In the center of Kamchatka is the Valley of Geysers, which was partly destroyed by a massive mudslide in June 2007. [11] Owing to the Kuril–Kamchatka Trench, deep-focus seismic events and tsunamis occur fairly commonly.
Kuril–Kamchatka Trench * Near Kuril Islands: Manila Trench: West of Luzon, Philippines Mariana Trench * Western Pacific Ocean; east of Mariana Islands: Middle America Trench: Eastern Pacific Ocean; off coast of Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica: New Hebrides Trench: West of Vanuatu (New Hebrides Islands). Peru–Chile Trench
The Kuril Islands or Kurile Islands [a] are a volcanic archipelago administered as part of Sakhalin Oblast in the Russian Far East. [1] The islands stretch approximately 1,300 km (810 mi) northeast from Hokkaido in Japan to Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia, separating the Sea of Okhotsk from the north Pacific Ocean .