Sentence examples for philippine plate from inspiring English sources

This is where the vast Pacific plate bends steeply beneath the Philippine plate, leaving a huge groove in the Earth's crust.

The earthquake's location was in what geologists in the area call the East Seismic Belt, where earthquakes are caused by the collision between the Philippine plate and the Eurasian plate.

The most likely spawning ground for that earthquake will be 100km or more to the south-west, where the Philippine plate dives under the Eurasian plate, creating a continuous sequence of shudders.

The boundary between the high and low seismicity region corresponds to the position of the contact between the Philippine plate and the Pacific plate.

The boundary of seismic activity corresponds to the position of the contact between the subducting Philippine plate and the subducting Pacific plate.

The tectonic framework of SE Asia is dominated by the interaction of three major adjoining lithospheric plates: the continental-oceanic Indian Plate to the west and south, the continental Eurasian Plate in a central location, and the oceanic Philippine Plate to the east (Fenton et al., 2003).

Four tectonic plates, namely, the Eurasian, North American, Pacific, and Philippine plates, converge in Japanese territory (Figure 1).

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A: The inlay gives an overview of the tectonic situation in this area, with EP = Eurasian Plate, PH = Philippine Sea Plate, PP = Pacific Plate, NA = North American Plate.

They are primarily the result of large oceanic movements occurring over hundreds of millions of years from the mid-Silurian to the Pleistocene as a result of the subduction of the Philippine Sea Plate beneath the continental Amurian Plate and Okinawa Plate to the south, and subduction of the Pacific Plate under the Okhotsk Plate to the north.

The Philippine Sea plate consists of three backarc basins, the Shikoku Basin (SB), Parece Vela Basin (PVB), and West Philippine Basin (Fig. 1).