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Philippine Trench, the Glossary

The Philippine Trench (also called the Philippine Deep, Mindanao Trench, and the Mindanao Deep) is a submarine trench to the east of the Philippines.^[1]

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Basaltic andesite

Basaltic andesite is a volcanic rock that is intermediate in composition between basalt and andesite.

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Bato, Catanduanes

Bato, officially the Municipality of Bato, is a 5th class municipality in the province of Catanduanes, Philippines.

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The Benham Rise, formally designated as Philippine Rise by the Philippine government, is an extinct volcanic ridge located in the Philippine Sea approximately east of the northern coastline of Dinapigue, Isabela. Philippine Trench and Benham Rise are Philippine Sea and Philippine tectonics.

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Calc-alkaline magma series

The calc-alkaline magma series is one of two main subdivisions of the subalkaline magma series, the other subalkaline magma series being the tholeiitic series.

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Catanduanes

Catanduanes, officially the Province of Catanduanes (Lalawigan ng Catanduanes), is an island province located in the Bicol Region of Luzon in the Philippines.

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Clay

Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolinite, Al2Si2O5(OH)4).

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Convergent boundary

A convergent boundary (also known as a destructive boundary) is an area on Earth where two or more lithospheric plates collide.

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Cortes, Surigao del Sur

Cortes, officially the Municipality of Cortes (Surigaonon: Lungsod nan Cortes; Bayan ng Cortes), is a 4th class municipality in the province of Surigao del Sur, Philippines.

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Cotabato Trench

The Cotabato Trench is an oceanic trench in the Pacific Ocean, off the southwestern coast of Mindanao in the Philippines. Philippine Trench and Cotabato Trench are Subduction zones.

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December 2023 Mindanao earthquake

On December 2, 2023, at 22:37 PST (14:37 UTC), a moment magnitude 7.6 earthquake occurred off the island of Mindanao in the Philippines.

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Earthquake

An earthquakealso called a quake, tremor, or tembloris the shaking of the Earth's surface resulting from a sudden release of energy in the lithosphere that creates seismic waves.

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Emden Deep

The Emden Deep, also known as the Galathea Deep or Galathea Depth, is the portion of the Philippine Trench exceeding depths in the south-western Pacific Ocean. Philippine Trench and Emden Deep are Philippine Sea, Philippine tectonics and Subduction zones.

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Gigmoto

Gigmoto, officially the Municipality of Gigmoto, is a 5th class municipality in the province of Catanduanes, Philippines.

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Guiuan

Guiuan (ˈgiˌwan; Bungto han Guiuan, Bayan ng Guiuan), officially the Municipality of Guiuan, is a 2nd class municipality in the province of Eastern Samar, Philippines.

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Halmahera

Halmahera, formerly known as Jilolo, Gilolo, or Jailolo, is the largest island in the Maluku Islands.

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Hinatuan

Hinatuan is a second class municipality in the province of Surigao del Sur, Philippines.

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Indonesia

Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans.

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Lime (material)

Lime is an inorganic material composed primarily of calcium oxides and hydroxides.

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Lingig

Lingig, officially the Municipality of Lingig, is a 2nd class municipality in the province of Surigao del Sur, Philippines.

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Luzon

Luzon is the largest and most populous island in the Philippines.

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Maluku Islands

The Maluku Islands (Indonesian: Kepulauan Maluku) or the Moluccas are an archipelago in the eastern part of Indonesia.

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Manila Trench

The Manila Trench is an oceanic trench in the Pacific Ocean, located west of the islands of Luzon and Mindoro in the Philippines. Philippine Trench and Manila Trench are oceanic trenches of the South China Sea, Philippine tectonics and Subduction zones.

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Mati, Davao Oriental

Mati, officially the City of Mati (Dakbayan sa Mati; Lungsod ng Mati / Siyudad ng Mati; Syudad nin Mati), is a 5th class component city and capital of the province of Davao Oriental, Philippines located on the southeasternmost side of Mindanao and is part of Metropolitan Davao, the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Philippines, and its managing entity, the MDDA.

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Metamorphic rocks arise from the transformation of existing rock to new types of rock in a process called metamorphism.

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Mindanao

Mindanao is the second-largest island in the Philippines, after Luzon, and seventh-most populous island in the world. Located in the southern region of the archipelago, the island is part of an island group of the same name that also includes its adjacent islands, notably the Sulu Archipelago.

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Moment magnitude scale

The moment magnitude scale (MMS; denoted explicitly with M or or Mwg, and generally implied with use of a single M for magnitude) is a measure of an earthquake's magnitude ("size" or strength) based on its seismic moment.

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Negros Trench

The Negros Trench is an oceanic trench located northeast of the Sulu Trench and west of Negros Island Region in Visayas, the trench is located in the Sunda Plate in the southwestern region of the Pacific Ocean. Philippine Trench and Negros Trench are oceanic trenches of the South China Sea, Philippine tectonics and Subduction zones.

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Oceanic trench

Oceanic trenches are prominent, long, narrow topographic depressions of the ocean floor.

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Palawan

Palawan, officially the Province of Palawan (Probinsya i'ang Palawan; Lalawigan ng Palawan), is an archipelagic province of the Philippines that is located in the region of Mimaropa.

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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. Philippine Trench and Philippine Sea Plate are Philippine Sea.

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Philippine Trench

The Philippine Trench (also called the Philippine Deep, Mindanao Trench, and the Mindanao Deep) is a submarine trench to the east of the Philippines. Philippine Trench and Philippine Trench are geology of Indonesia, oceanic trenches of the South China Sea, Philippine Sea, Philippine tectonics and Subduction zones.

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Philippines

The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.

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Plio-Pleistocene

The Plio-Pleistocene is an informally described geological pseudo-period, which begins about 5 million years ago (Mya) and, drawing forward, combines the time ranges of the formally defined Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs—marking from about 5 Mya to about 12 kya.

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Samar

Samar is the third-largest and seventh-most populous island in the Philippines, with a total population of 1,909,537 as of the 2020 census.

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San Policarpo, Eastern Samar

San Policarpo, officially the Municipality of San Policarpo (Bungto han San Policarpo; Bayan ng San Policarpo), is a 5th class municipality in the province of Eastern Samar, Philippines.

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Silt

Silt is granular material of a size between sand and clay and composed mostly of broken grains of quartz.

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Subduction

Subduction is a geological process in which the oceanic lithosphere and some continental lithosphere is recycled into the Earth's mantle at convergent boundaries.

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Sulu Trench

The Sulu Trench is an oceanic trench in the Pacific Ocean, located west of the islands of Mindanao and Sulu in the Philippines. Philippine Trench and Sulu Trench are Philippine tectonics and Subduction zones.

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Tarangnan

Tarangnan, officially the Municipality of Tarangnan (Bungto han Tarangnan; Bayan ng Tarangnan), is a 4th class municipality in the province of Samar, Philippines.

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Turbidity current

A turbidity current is most typically an underwater current of usually rapidly moving, sediment-laden water moving down a slope; although current research (2018) indicates that water-saturated sediment may be the primary actor in the process.

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Ultramafic rock

Ultramafic rocks (also referred to as ultrabasic rocks, although the terms are not wholly equivalent) are igneous and meta-igneous rocks with a very low silica content (less than 45%), generally >18% MgO, high FeO, low potassium, and are composed of usually greater than 90% mafic minerals (dark colored, high magnesium and iron content).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Trench

Also known as East Luzon Trench, Mindanao Deep, Mindanao Trench, Philippine Deep.

Philippine Trench, the Glossary

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See also

Geology of Indonesia

Oceanic trenches of the South China Sea

Philippine Sea

Philippine tectonics

References