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Location map Puerto Rico Trench—United States Geological Survey Perspective view of the sea floor of the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. The Lesser Antilles are on the lower left side of the view and Florida is on the upper right. The purple sea floor at the center of the view is the Puerto Rico Trench, the deepest part of the Atlantic ...
At this trench the North American Plate is being subducted by the Caribbean Plate. This subduction zone is responsible for the volcanism of the West Indies to the southeast of Puerto Rico. A major transform fault extends from the Puerto Rico trench along the northern coast of Puerto Rico and on through the Cayman Trough to the coast of Central ...
Bathymetry of the northeast corner of the Caribbean Plate showing the major faults and plate boundaries; view looking south-west. The main bathymetric features of this area include: the Lesser Antilles volcanic arc; the old inactive volcanic arc of the Greater Antilles (Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and Hispaniola); the Muertos Trough; and the Puerto Rico Trench formed at the plate boundary ...
Location of the Puerto Rico Trench, USGS Located roughly 76.0 miles (122.3 km ; 66.0 nmi ) north of the coast of the main island of Puerto Rico at Punto Palmas Altas in Manatí , [ 9 ] [ 10 ] the maximum depth of the Milwaukee Deep is 8,376 metres (27,480 ft ; 4,580 fathoms ), as directly measured by Vescovo during his 2018 descent to the ...
The Puerto Rico Trench, the largest and deepest trench in the Atlantic, is located about 71 mi (114 km) north of Puerto Rico at the boundary between the Caribbean and North American plates. [93] It is 170 mi (270 km) long. [94] At its deepest point, named the Milwaukee Deep, it is almost 27,600 ft (8,400 m) deep. [93]
Puerto Rico Trench: 6.0 IV – – [7] 2001-10-17 Charlotte Amalie Virgin Islands: 6.0 IV – – Earthquake swarm. [7] 2008-10-11 Charlotte Amalie Virgin Islands: 6.1 V – – Felt in Puerto Rico, the US and British Virgin Islands. [7] 2010-05-16: Moca Puerto Rico: 5.8 VI – – Felt throughout Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and the US ...
Consisting of the archipelagos of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, it is bounded to the north by the Puerto Rico Trench, to the south by the Muertos Trough, to the east by the Virgin Island Basin, Anegada Gap, and Sombrero Basin in the Anegada Passage, and to west by the Yuma Basin and Mona Canyon in the Mona Passage.
A map of the United States Virgin Islands. U.S. Virgin Islands - NASA NLT Landsat 7 (Visible Color) Satellite Image. The United States Virgin Islands are a group of several dozen islands and cays located in the Caribbean, about 1,100 miles (1,770 km) southeast of Florida, 600 miles (966 km) north of Venezuela, 40 miles (64 km) east of Puerto Rico, and immediately west and south of the British ...