Both trenches make up part of the seabed of the Pacific Ocean. The Cabinet Office projected up to 199,000 fatalities in the event of a magnitude-9.1 megaquake in the Japan Trench late at night in ...
Not anymore. Kelly Walsh, the son of the great ocean explorer Don Walsh, has just descended to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, almost 11km down in the Pacific. He made the dive 60 years after ...
This movement results in deep ocean trenches, volcanic eruptions, and earthquake epicenters along the boundaries where the plates meet, called fault lines. The Ring of Fire is home to the deepest ...
However, at the time only about 10% of Earth's seafloor had been mapped to high resolution, so this figure is only an estimate. Challenger Deep, in the Mariana Trench, is the deepest point in the ...
The deepest ever sighting of an octopus has been made by cameras on the Indian Ocean floor. The animal was spotted 7,000m down in the Java Trench - almost 2km deeper than the previous reliable ...