Negros Trench
E252021
The Negros Trench is a deep oceanic trench in the western Pacific, located off the central Philippines and formed by the subduction of the Sulu Sea Plate beneath the Philippine Mobile Belt.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Negros Trench canonical | 2 |
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
oceanic trench
ⓘ
subduction zone feature ⓘ |
| adjacentSea |
Philippine Sea
ⓘ
Sulu Sea ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
earthquake activity
ⓘ
tsunami hazard ⓘ volcanism in the central Philippines ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Philippines ⓘ |
| depthCategory | hadal to abyssal zone ⓘ |
| discoveredBy | marine geophysical surveys in the 20th century ⓘ |
| featureType | deep-sea trench ⓘ |
| formedBy | subduction of the Sulu Sea Plate beneath the Philippine Mobile Belt ⓘ |
| geologicalProcess | oceanic plate subduction ⓘ |
| hazardRelevance | source of potentially large subduction earthquakes ⓘ |
| locatedIn | western Pacific Ocean ⓘ |
| locatedOffCoastOf | central Philippines ⓘ |
| maximumDepth | over 5000 m ⓘ |
| nearIsland |
Cebu Island
ⓘ
Negros Island ⓘ Panay Island ⓘ |
| ocean | Pacific Ocean ⓘ |
| orientation | roughly north–south ⓘ |
| overridingPlate | Philippine Mobile Belt ⓘ |
| partOf |
Philippine Trench
ⓘ
surface form:
Philippine Trench system
|
| plateBoundaryBetween | Sulu Sea Plate and Philippine Mobile Belt ⓘ |
| region | Visayas ⓘ |
| runsParallelTo | central Visayas island arc ⓘ |
| subductingPlate | Sulu Sea Plate ⓘ |
| tectonicSetting | convergent plate boundary ⓘ |
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.