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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 × 10 ^ 6 sq mi). [1] The Philippine Sea Plate forms the floor of the sea. [2]
The Guimaras oil spill, that occurred in Panay Gulf on August 11, 2006, has severely affected the fishing industry. During this spill, considered Philippines' worst, the oil tanker M/T Solar 1 sank during a violent storm, spilling some 500,000 litres (110,000 imp gal; 130,000 US gal) of oil which formed an oil slick that drifted through the strait. [4]
The Philippine Archipelago is geologically part of the Philippine Mobile Belt located between the Philippine Sea Plate, the South China Sea Basin of the Eurasian Plate, and the Sunda Plate. The Philippine Trench (also called the Mindanao Trench) is a submarine trench 1,320 kilometers (820 mi) in length found directly east of the Philippine ...
Image credits: astarisaslave #8. TIL in South Korea, only blind people can get a masseur's license. This law was established in 1912, to help visually impaired people earn a living.
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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 Sea plate.
Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden / Arabian Sea: Bab Iskender: Arabian Peninsula and Djibouti in Africa Balabac Strait: Palawan and Borneo: Bali Strait: Java and Bali: Strait of Baltiysk: Vistula Bay and Gdańsk Bay: Bangka Strait: Sumatra and Bangka Island (also: Banca, Banka) Banks Strait: Cape Barren Island/Clarke Island and Tasmania: Bashi Channel
The Philippine military on Sunday condemned a Chinese coast guard ship's “excessive and offensive” use of a water cannon to block a Filipino supply boat from delivering new troops, food, water ...