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If you can see the guys below on the lower right hand side of this photo (there's 5 of them hiking), then that's how BIG this crater is! *By the way, subduction zones are where the deepest ocean trenches reside. These trenches are created due to the collision of the oceanic plates & continental plates. And since it's the ocean floor [plates] that moves & collides into the continents, then trenches are found off the coast of the Americas & Asia Pacific such as: the Peru-Chile trench, the Juan de Fuca trench, the Aleutian trench, the Japan trench, the Tonga trench, & the Marianas trench: the deepest of all ocean trenches whereby the steepest portion is located nearby the Philippines & is therefore called "the Philippine Deep". Overall, the sea floor of the Pacific is indeed moving slowly thru time at both directions making them collide to the American & Asian continents. But how you may ask? Well, we'll get to that later on.
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