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 ⇄Change DirectionTranslation for 'Kuril-Kamchatka' from English to Russian
геогр.геол.
Курило-Камчатский жёлоб {м}
Kuril-Kamchatka Trench
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Translation for 'Kuril-Kamchatka' from English to Russian

Kuril-Kamchatka Trench
Курило-Камчатский жёлоб {м}геогр.геол.
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Usage Examples English
  • Meiji Seamount will eventually be destroyed by subduction into the KurilKamchatka Trench where it is carried by the ongoing plate motion, although this will not fully occur for several million more years if the current rate of motion is maintained.
  • The southern part of the Kamchatka peninsula lies above the convergent plate margin where the Pacific Plate is subducting beneath the Okhotsk Plate along the line of the Kuril–Kamchatka Trench.
  • Shiveluch is a volcano within the Kuril-Kamchatka volcanic arc which hosts tens of other volcanoes.
  • Immediately following the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, a seismic gap analysis of the seismic zones around the Pacific Ocean identified the Central Kuril segment of the Kuril–Kamchatka Trench subduction zone as the most likely to give rise to a major earthquake.
  • The best examples of volcanic arcs with both sets of characteristics are in the North Pacific, with the Aleutian Arc consisting of the Aleutian Islands and their extension the Aleutian Range on the Alaska Peninsula, and the KurilKamchatka Arc comprising the Kuril Islands and southern Kamchatka Peninsula.
  • In the Kamchatka-Aleutian junction, the Kuril–Kamchatka Trench meets the Aleutian Trench. The former is a subduction zone while the latter is a transform fault in its western part.
  • It has a wide range, extending from the coasts of Honshu (Gulf of Sagami) and Hokkaido islands through the Kuril-Kamchatka trough, in the northwest Pacific, to the eastern Pacific from California to Peru.
  • This species was found on the KurilKamchatka Trench, Northern Pacific.
  • This is a deep-sea species, occurring in the KurilKamchatka Trench in the northern Pacific.
  • Thus Kilauea is the second youngest volcano in the Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain, a chain of shield volcanoes and seamounts extending from Hawaii to the KurilKamchatka Trench in Russia.
  • There is also one record from 5,540 m down in the KurilKamchatka Trench.
  • Owing to the KurilKamchatka Trench, deep-focus seismic events and tsunamis are fairly common.
  • "Pseudoliparis amblystomopsis", or the hadal snailfish, is a species of snailfish from the hadal zone of the Northwest Pacific Ocean, including the KurilKamchatka and Japan Trenches.
  • It links the KurilKamchatka Trench to the north and the Izu–Ogasawara Trench to its south with a length of [...].
  • of faults from the Japan Trench to the KurilKamchatka Trench ruptured together and moved by [...] (or if a similar large-scale rupture occurred elsewhere).
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