A powerful 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck the Tonga Islands on Sunday, according to the National Center for Seismology (NCS). The quake occurred at a shallow depth of 10 km, making it more prone to ...

The trench is located in the Pacific Ocean near the Philippines. Near the top is a tiny black dot, a to-scale representation of a 6-foot-tall person. Below that is the maximum diving depth of a ...

The earthquake took place at a shallow depth of 10 km ... which lose energy as they travel to the surface. The Tonga Trench is the place where the Pacific and Australian plates meet.

As per the NCS, massive earthquake occurred at a shallow depth of 10km ... which lose energy as they travel to the surface. The Tonga Trench is the place where the Pacific and Australian plates ...

Additionally, a trench-parallel mantle flow in the outer-rise asthenosphere—likely compressed by slab rollback—challenges conventional models of subduction-driven circulation. The Tonga ...