This study has confirmed that the Horizon Deep within the Tonga Trench is the second deepest point in the Pacific Ocean (10,816 ± 16 m), the Dordrecht Deep within the Diamantina Fracture Zone is not the deepest point in the Indian Ocean (7,019 ± 17 m) and that in accordance ...
Fascination and inspiration is habitually drawn from the highest mountain, the longest river, the biggest ocean, the deepest trench, amongst many others at national, intercontinental or global levels. These world-record places are part of the heritage of humankind and not only tell us a lot ...
Besides that four other trenches are reported deeper than 10,000 m: The Tonga (10,800 m), the Philippine (10,540 m), the Kermadec (10,177 m) and the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench (10,382 m or 10,542 m) (Jamieson, 2015, Udintsev, 1955). The Kuril-Kamchatka Trench (KKT) was first ...
slab and the 2015 Bonin deepest earthquake (Mw 7.9) received: 31 August 2016 accepted: 08 February 2017 Published: 15 March 2017 Dapeng Zhao, Moeto Fujisawa & Genti Toyokuni On 30 May 2015 an isolated deep earthquake (~670 km, Mw 7.9) occurred to the west of the Bonin Islands...