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The Philippine Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean east of the Philippine Archipelago (hence the name) and the largest sea in the world, occupying an estimated surface area of 5 million square kilometers (2 × 106 sq mi). [1] The Philippine Sea Plate forms the floor of the sea. [2] Its western border is the first island chain to ...
Philippine Sea Plate. The Philippine Sea Plate or the Philippine Plate is a tectonic plate comprising oceanic lithosphere that lies beneath the Philippine Sea, to the east of the Philippines. Most segments of the Philippines, including northern Luzon, are part of the Philippine Mobile Belt, which is geologically and tectonically separate from ...
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 ]
Geography of the Philippines. The Philippines is an archipelago that comprises 7,641 islands, [ 8 ] and with a total land area of 300,000 square kilometers (115,831 sq mi), it is the world's fifth largest island country. [ 2 ][ 3 ][ 9 ] The eleven largest islands contain 95% of the total land area. The largest of these islands is Luzon at about ...
The exclusive economic zone of the Philippines (Philippine EEZ), per the mandate of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), consists of four subzones. [ 1 ] It covers 2,263,816 square kilometers (874,064 sq mi) of sea. The Philippines has 7,641 islands comprising the Philippine archipelago. [ 2 ]
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 ...
Philippine Mobile Belt. In the geology of the Philippines, the Philippine Mobile Belt is a complex portion of the tectonic boundary between the Eurasian Plate and the Philippine Sea Plate, comprising most of the country of the Philippines. It includes two subduction zones, the Manila Trench to the west and the Philippine Trench to the east, as ...
West Philippine Sea (Filipino: Kanlurang Dagat ng Pilipinas; [2][3] or Karagatang Kanlurang Pilipinas; [4] abbreviated as WPS) is the official designation by the government of the Philippines to the parts of the South China Sea that are included in the country's exclusive economic zone. The term is also sometimes incorrectly used to refer to ...