Middle America Trench
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Middle America Trench
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The Middle America Trench is a major subduction zone, an oceanic trench in the eastern Pacific Ocean off the southwestern coast of Middle America, stretching from central Mexico to Costa Rica. The trench is 1,700 miles (2,750 km) long and is 21,880 feet at its deepest point.
The trench is the boundary between the Rivera, Cocos, and Nazca plates on one side and the North American and Caribbean plates on the other. It is the 18th-deepest trench in the world. Many large earthquakes have occurred in
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Subduction zone in the eastern Pacific off the southwestern coast of Middle America
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_America_Trench
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2023-01-28T21:15:13Z
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