What do you think is the plate motion between the Philippine Plate and Pacific Plate?
The Philippine Sea plate is tectonically unusual in that almost all the boundaries are convergent. The Pacific plate is subducting beneath the Philippine Sea plate to the east while the west/northwestern part of the Philippine Sea plate is subducting beneath the continental Eurasian plate.
What movement along the Philippine Sea plate and the Eurasian plate results in the formation of volcanoes in the Philippines?
It results from the subduction of Eurasian Plate beneath the Philippine Mobile Belt along the Manila Trench since early Miocene. The age of volcanoes young towards the south from Taiwan. Subduction started in Taiwan 16 million years ago, but there were still young volcanoes which are dated up to quaternary in Mindanao.
What type of plate boundary is Philippine Trench?
convergent zone
A convergent zone borders an estimate of 45% of the Philippine Trench today. Although there are vast areas of subduction zones, some authors have considered this region to have low seismic activity, though the USGS has recorded many earthquakes with magnitude ≥ 7.2 in the region as shown by the map to the side.
What are the major plates with which the Philippine Plate interact?
The complex tectonics surrounding the Philippine Islands are dominated by the interactions of the Pacific, Sunda, and Eurasia plates with the Philippine Sea plate (PSP). The latter is unique because it is almost exclusively surrounded by zones of plate convergence.
How many tectonic plates does the Philippines lie in between?
The Philippine Sea plate is the largest of the collage of plates and marginal basins that occupy the complex boundary zone between the three major plates that converge in East Asia: the Pacific, Indo-Australian, and Eurasian/Sundaland plates (Figures 1 and 2).
What makes the Pacific Plate unique compared to the plates?
The Pacific Plate has the distinction of showing one of the largest areal sections of the oldest members of seabed geology being entrenched into eastern Asian oceanic trenches.
Why does the Philippine experience both tectonic and volcanic earthquakes?
The Philippines lies along the Pacific Ring of Fire, which causes the country to have frequent seismic and volcanic activity. Many earthquakes of smaller magnitude occur very regularly due to the meeting of major tectonic plates in the region.
Which plate boundary is formed between the Philippines and the Eurasian Plate?
The Nankai Trough subduction zone is a typical subduction system characterized by subduction of multiple geological units of the Philippine Sea Plate (the Kyushu-Palau Ridge, the Shikoku Basin, the Kinan Seamount Chain, and the Izu-Bonin Arc) beneath the Eurasian Plate in the southwest of Japan.
How deep is Philippine Deep?
34,578 feet
The deepest is the Philippine Trench at 34,578 feet (10,539 m).
Is Mariana Trench part of the Philippines?
The Mariana Trench is located in the western Pacific Ocean, east of the Philippines and about 120 miles east of the Mariana Islands. In 2009, President Bush declared the area surrounding Mariana Trench as a wildlife refuge, called the Marianas Trench Marine National Monument.
Who first named our country las Islas Filipinas?
The Philippines were claimed in the name of Spain in 1521 by Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese explorer sailing for Spain, who named the islands after King Philip II of Spain. They were then called Las Felipinas.
What plate does New York lie on?
North American plate
New York City lies within the North American plate and the closest plate boundary is thousands of miles away in the middle of the Atlantic.