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  2. Manila Trench - Wikipedia

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    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 depth of the South China Sea of about 1,500 metres (4,900 ft).

  3. Philippine Trench - Wikipedia

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    Although there are vast areas of subduction zones, some authors have considered this region to have low seismic activity, [17] though the USGS has recorded many earthquakes with magnitude ≥ 7.2 in the region as shown by the map to the side. Most recently, in 2012 the Philippine Trench experienced an earthquake of M w 7.6 (the 2012 Samar ...

  4. December 2023 Mindanao earthquake - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  5. Subduction tectonics of the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    Faults and subduction zones are the seismic origins. Among subduction zones in the Philippines, subduction along the Philippine Trench produces the most active and frequent seismic activities to the region. However, as the Philippine Trench is a young subduction system, the majority are shallow earthquakes (less than 30 km [clarification needed ...

  6. 2019 Eastern Samar earthquake - Wikipedia

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    Eastern Samar is located near an active subduction zone, the Philippine trench, where the Philippine Sea plate subducts beneath the Sunda plate, and movement along the trench is what caused the earthquake. [6] [3] The earthquake struck less than a day after another magnitude 6.1 earthquake in Luzon, but it was found that these earthquakes were ...

  7. List of earthquakes in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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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.

  8. November 2023 Mindanao earthquake - Wikipedia

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    At 16:14 PST (08:14 UTC) on November 17, 2023, the province of Sarangani on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines was struck by an earthquake measuring 6.7 M ww. It had a maximum perceived intensity of VIII (Severe) on the Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale. At least eleven people were killed and another 730 were treated for injuries.

  9. Cotabato Trench - Wikipedia

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    For recent Philippine earthquakes, a third of the largest ones (M ≥ 6.3) since 2001 have been near the Cotabato Trench. The Cotabato Trench is an oceanic trench in the Pacific Ocean , off the southwestern coast of Mindanao in the Philippines .