Kuril Trench

[ koor-il trench ]

noun

1. an oceanic trench in the North Pacific Ocean off the southeast coast of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, along which the subduction of the Pacific Plate beneath the Okhotsk Plate is generating significant volcanic activity.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Kuril Trench¹

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

A future mega-quake in the Japan Trench, which extends off Hokkaido, the northernmost of Japan’s main islands, to Boso Peninsula east of Tokyo, or in the Kuril Trench, which goes from Hokkaido to Russia's Kuri Island, could yield disastrous results.

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