"With the movement of the Philippine Trench, a magnitude 8.1 earthquake is not remote and a magnitude 8.3 earthquake is also likely if the Manila Trench located in the West Philippine Sea moves ...

A death toll of more than 50,000, and at least 12% of residential buildings heavily damaged: these are among the sobering ...

He added that they are currently monitoring six trenches that are “capable of generating major and even great earthquakes” and producing tsunamis: East Luzon Trough, Philippine Trench, Cotabato Trench ...

A massive earthquake in the Philippines could kill more than 50,000 people, flatten hundreds of buildings and trigger tsunamis in Manila and nearby regions if the West Valley fault line moves, ...

It is located at the triple boundary between the Amur, Okhotsk and Philippine Sea plates. The 2011 earthquake occurred in the nearby Japan Trench. A Nankai Trough earthquake has struck Japan every ...

EMSC first reported the quake at a magnitude of 6.4. Another earthquake of magnitude 5.6 struck off the southern Philippines on Wednesday (April 16), the United States Geological Survey (USGS ...

Four earthquakes struck parts of Mindanao on Easter Sunday, the first of which was a magnitude 5.9 tremor recorded at 12:11 a.m. off the coast of Sultan ...

and earthquake epicenters along the boundaries where the plates meet, called fault lines. The Ring of Fire is home to the deepest ocean trench, called the Mariana Trench. Located east of Guam ...