page_title: Philippine Trench
hierarchical_section_title: Philippine Trench
caption_attribution_description: English: Major physiographic elements of the Philippine Mobile Belt
context_page_description: The Philippine Trench is a submarine trench to the east of the Philippines. The trench is located in the Philippine sea of the western North Pacific Ocean and continues NNW-SSE. It has a length of approximately 1,320 kilometres and a width of about 30 km from the center of the Philippine island of Luzon trending southeast to the northern Maluku island of Halmahera in Indonesia. At its deepest point, the trench reaches 10,540 meters or.
  Immediately to the north of the Philippine Trench is the East Luzon Trench. They are separated, with their continuity interrupted and displaced, by Benham Plateau on the Philippine Sea Plate.
context_section_description: The Philippine Trench (also Philippine Deep, Mindanao Trench, and Mindanao Deep) is a submarine trench to the east of the Philippines. The trench is located in the Philippine sea of the western North Pacific Ocean and continues NNW-SSE. It has a length of approximately 1,320 kilometres (820 miles) and a width of about 30 km (19 mi) from the center of the  Philippine island of Luzon trending southeast to the northern Maluku island of Halmahera in Indonesia. At its deepest point, the trench  reaches 10,540 meters (34,580 ft) or (5,760 fathoms).
  Immediately to the north of the Philippine Trench is the East Luzon Trench.  They are separated, with their continuity interrupted and displaced, by Benham Plateau on the Philippine Sea Plate.
caption: The Philippine Trench in the east which continues downward, and the Philippine Mobile Belt.
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