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The earthquake occurred as a result of shallow oblique-thrust faulting likely along the subduction interface of the Philippine Trench. At this location, the Philippine Sea plate moves west-northwest at a rate of about 103 mm (4.1 in) per year with respect to the Sunda plate. A finite fault model suggests rupture occurred around an elliptical ...
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The subduction zones that surround most of the archipelago are the source of many of the larger earthquakes that strike the Philippines. This includes both faulting along the plate interfaces and within the subducting slabs. For the Philippine Trench, examples of those on the plate interface are the 1988 M w 7.3 and the 2023 M7.6 events.
Philippine Islands region [6] August 13 2:01 AM 5.0 None 10km 109 km E of Pondaguitan, Philippines [12] August 13 4:17 AM 5.3 None 64km 111 km ESE of Pondaguitan, Philippines [13] August 13 4:28 AM 5.3 None 35km 113 km ESE of Pondaguitan, Philippines [14] August 13 5:03 AM 5.3 None 47km 114 km ESE of Pondaguitan, Philippines [15] August 14 9:27 ...
It was first recorded as magnitude 6.3 by the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, which later downgraded it to M w 6.1 at a shallow depth of 10 km. There was a foreshock which preceded the main quake, recorded M w 4.8 at 7:28 AM PST by Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology with a PHIVOLCS Earthquake Intensity Scale ...
Dinagat Islands (Cebuano: Mga Pulo sa Dinagat; Surigaonon: Mga Puyo nan Dinagat; Kabalian: Mga Puyo san Dinagat; Waray: Mga Purô han Dinagat; Filipino: Mga Islang Dinagat [3]), officially the Province of Dinagat Islands, is an island province in the Caraga region of the Philippines, located on the south side of Leyte Gulf.
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 (19 mi) from the center of the Philippine island of Luzon trending southeast to the northern Maluku island of Halmahera in Indonesia. At its deepest ...