East Luzon Trough

E237718

The East Luzon Trough is a deep oceanic trench off the eastern coast of Luzon in the Philippines, formed by the subduction of the Philippine Sea Plate beneath the Philippine Mobile Belt.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
East Luzon Trough canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (43)

Predicate Object
instanceOf oceanic trench
subduction zone
adjacentTo Luzon landmass
Philippine Archipelago
surface form: Philippine archipelago
associatedWith Philippine Fault System
surface form: Philippine Fault system

Philippine Mobile Belt
Philippine Sea Plate
earthquakes
seismic activity
tsunami hazard
country Philippines
countryBorder Philippines
featureType bathymetric depression
formedBySubductionOf Philippine Sea Plate
geologicalAge Cenozoic
geologicalProcess oceanic plate subduction
hasGeologicalHazard earthquake hazard
tsunami generation potential
influences seismic hazard in Luzon
tectonics of northern Philippines
isPartOf Philippine subduction system
locatedEastOf Luzon
locatedIn Philippine Sea
locatedInArcSystem Philippine island arc system
locatedInRegion western Pacific Ocean
locatedOffCoastOf Luzon
eastern Luzon
marginType active continental margin
namedAfter Luzon
near East Philippine Basin
Philippine Trench
ocean Pacific Ocean
overridingPlate Philippine Mobile Belt
parallelTo eastern coast of Luzon
partOf Philippine Trench
surface form: Philippine Trench system
region Southeast Asia
researchField marine geology
plate tectonics
seismology
tectonicPlateOnOneSide Philippine Sea Plate
tectonicPlateOnOtherSide Philippine Mobile Belt
tectonicRole accommodates convergence between Philippine Sea Plate and Philippine Mobile Belt
tectonicSetting convergent plate boundary

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Philippine Mobile Belt associatedWith East Luzon Trough
Philippine Basin subductsAlong East Luzon Trough
Philippine Microplate associatedWith East Luzon Trough