The enormous 64 million square mile ocean that keeps shrinking every year
Due to this phenomenon, the Pacific Ocean basin is currently shrinking by about 2.5 cm (1 in) per year on three sides, ...
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Explorer Dives Into World’s Deepest Trench in the Pacific Ocean- Finds Plastic Waste on Seafloor
An expert diver's record-breaking feat was supplemented, not by the discovery of a magical marine creature, but by plastic ...
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Large, ghostly white crab-like predator discovered at the bottom of the Atacama Trench
A never-before-seen predatory crustacean that feeds on other smaller creatures in the hadal zone was discovered in the Atacama Trench at a depth of 25,900 feet.
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How deep is the ocean?
It's located in the western Pacific Ocean near the Mariana Islands. The trench's depth was first measured during the Challenger expedition in 1875. But it wasn't until the 1950s that scientists ...
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Magnitude 7.3 earthquake hits the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck Tuesday just off the coast of Vanuatu in the South Pacific Ocean, the USGS said. The quake occurred at a depth of 57 kilometers (35 ...