NOUN | the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench | - | |
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- Meiji Seamount will eventually be destroyed by subduction into the Kuril–Kamchatka 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- This species was found on the Kuril–Kamchatka Trench, Northern Pacific.
- This is a deep-sea species, occurring in the Kuril–Kamchatka 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 Kuril–Kamchatka Trench in Russia.
- There is also one record from 5,540 m down in the Kuril–Kamchatka Trench.
- Owing to the Kuril–Kamchatka Trench, deep-focus seismic events and tsunamis are fairly common.
- It links the Kuril–Kamchatka Trench to the north and the Izu–Ogasawara Trench to its south with a length of [...].
- of faults from the Japan Trench to the Kuril–Kamchatka Trench ruptured together and moved by [...] (or if a similar large-scale rupture occurred elsewhere).
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