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Its maximum depth is the deepest point in the Indian Ocean. The trench stretches from the Lesser Sunda Islands past Java, around the southern coast of Sumatra to the Andaman Islands, and forms the boundary between the Indo-Australian plate and Eurasian plate (more specifically, Sunda plate).
There are about 50,000 km (31,000 mi) of oceanic trenches worldwide, mostly around the Pacific Ocean, but also in the eastern Indian Ocean and a few other locations. The greatest ocean depth measured is in the Challenger Deep of the Mariana Trench , at a depth of 10,994 m (36,070 ft) below sea level .
The Diamantina Trench is in the eastern part of the larger Diamantina fracture zone, which stretches 1,900 kilometres (1,200 mi) [1] from the Ninety East Ridge to the Naturaliste Plateau, off the lower part of Southwest Australia. [2] [3] [4] It is one of the deepest points (surpassed by the Sunda Trench) in the Indian Ocean at 7,079 m (23,225 ...
Izu–Ogasawara Trench: Pacific Ocean 9,810 32,087 6.08 7 Japan Trench: Pacific Ocean 9,000 29,527 5.59 8 Puerto Rico Trench: Atlantic Ocean 8,605 28,232 5.35 9 Yap Trench: Pacific Ocean 8,527 27,976 5.30 10 Richards Deep: Peru–Chile Trench, Pacific Ocean 8,065 26,456 5.01 11 Diamantina Deep: Diamantina fracture zone, Indian Ocean: 8,047 ...
The Mariana Trench is an oceanic trench located in the western Pacific Ocean, about 200 kilometres (124 mi) east of the Mariana Islands; it is the deepest oceanic trench on Earth. It is crescent-shaped and measures about 2,550 km (1,580 mi) in length and 69 km (43 mi) in width.
This confirmed that the Diamantina fracture zone does not contain the deepest point in the Indian Ocean, but may be the second deepest point after the Sunda Trench. [9] The shallowest point in the area is the 1,125 m (3,691 ft) point in the Broken Ridge, close to Ninety East Ridge. [10]
Flight documents show MH370 was ‘buried in an ocean trench by pilot’, says Boeing expert. ... in the Geelvinck Fracture Zone of the Southern Indian Ocean, a trench hundreds of miles long. ...
The Sumatra Trench is a part of the Sunda Trench or Java Trench.The Sunda subduction zone (called also: the Sumatra-Andaman subduction zone) is located in the east part of Indian Ocean, and is about 300 km (190 mi) from the southwest coast of Sumatra and Java islands.