Definitions

1. The Puerto Rico Trench is an oceanic trench located on the boundary between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.
2. The Puerto Rico Trench is located at a boundary between two plates that pass each other along a transform boundary with only a small component of subduction.
3. The Puerto Rico Trench is the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean, with a maximum depth of more than 8 km (5 miles), at Milwaukee Deep.
4. The Puerto Rico Trench is the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean, with water depths exceeding 8,400 meters (figure 1).
5. The Puerto Rico trench is located where two plates, the North American plate and the Caribbean plate collide.

Location

1. One location that has garnered much attention from scientists is the Puerto Rico Trench, the deepest location in the Atlantic Ocean.

Basins

1. Much of this sediment is trapped in basins in the basin and ridge province, but some reaches the floor of the Puerto Rico Trench in the form of turbidites.

Northern End

1. At the northern end of the eastern subduction zone, the Puerto Rico Trench is one of the deepest spots in the world ocean.

Earthquake

1. This visualization shows the possible impact an earthquake of 7.5 magnitude in the Puerto Rico trench would have on the United States East Coast.

Northern Side

1. Other large submarine slides were discovered for the first time on the northern side of the Puerto Rico trench on the downgoing North American plate.

Northern Portion

1. Notice the land by the northern portion of the Puerto Rico Trench.

Extreme North

1. In the extreme north, far away from sediment sources, the Puerto Rico Trench is over 8600 m deep and there is no active accretionary prism.

Marianas Trench

1. Although shallower than the Marianas Trench, the Puerto Rico Trench is as impressively deep as Mount Everest is high.

Tsunamis

1. Earthquakes and landslides along the Puerto Rico Trench, an undersea fault zone, have the potential to cause tsunamis.

North American Plates

1. Detailed 3-D interpolated image showing the interaction of the Caribbean and North American Plates and the location of the Puerto Rico Trench.

Caribbean Plate

1. The earthquake occurred on the boundary between the North American plate and the Caribbean plate near the Puerto Rico trench.

Average Depth

1. Average depth is 12,000 feet and the greatest depth is 28,374 feet in the Puerto Rico Trench.

Deepest Point

1. The deepest point in the Atlantic at 28,200 feet lies in The Puerto Rico Trench.
2. At its deepest point, in the Milwaukee Deep in the Puerto Rico Trench, the bottom is 8,605 meters (28,231 feet) below the surface.

North

1. The Puerto Rico Trench lies north of the basin and ridge province.

Puerto Rico

1. Figure 2: Digital mosaic of GLORIA data from the Puerto Rico Trench and the insular slope north of Puerto Rico.

Atlantic Ocean

1. The waters off Puerto Rico are home the deepest point of the Atlantic Ocean, the Milwaukee Depth (27,493 feet), which is part of the Puerto Rico Trench.
2. There are few land areas or islands to block a tsunami generated near the Puerto Rico Trench from entering the Atlantic Ocean.
3. The Puerto Rico Trench, which is capable of producing earthquakes of magnitude 7 to 8 or greater, faces north and east into the Atlantic Ocean.

Deepest Part

1. Milwaukee Deep is the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean, and is part of the Puerto Rico Trench.
2. The deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean is in the Puerto Rico Trench, off the coast of Puerto Rico.
3. The deepest part of the Puerto Rico Trench, which has depths in excess of 8,000 meters (m), lies 150 km north of the island of Puerto Rico (Fig.

Puerto Rico Trench

1. In the Caribbean, just north of Puerto Rico lies the Puerto Rico Trench, the deepest point in the Atlantic Ocean.
2. The deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean, the Puerto Rico Trench, is to the north of our Island.
3. The purple sea floor at the center of the view is the Puerto Rico trench, the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea.

Categories

1. Deepest Part
2. Places > Earth > Oceans > Atlantic Ocean
3. Liquids > Water > Islands > Puerto Rico
4. Deepest Point
5. Regions > Americas > Central America > Caribbean Plate
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