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811:West Melanesian Trench
441:Philippine Mobile Belt
691:Sulawesi and Moluccas
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617:Java Trench
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503:Maoke Plate
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434:Philippines
425:Burma Plate
400:Sunda Plate
268:Obi Islands
252:Pleistocene
244:translation
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162:earthquakes
1013:Categories
908:Sawu Basin
853:Bula Basin
826:and basins
765:Ayu Trough
758:New Guinea
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260:Halmahera
237:Sundaland
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278:See also
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176:Location
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248:Miocene
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