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Ryukyu Trench Mystery Cache

Hidden : 8/2/2014
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

THE CACHE IS NOT AT THE POSTED COORDINATES. It is a regular sized lock-n-lock placed on dry ground here:





The Ryukyu Trench (琉球海溝 Ryūkyū kaikō) is a 1398 km (868 mi) long oceanic trench located along the southeastern edge of Japan's Ryukyu Islands in the Philippine Sea between northeastern Taiwan and Okinawa. The trench has a maximum depth of 7460 m (24,476 ft). The trench is the result of oceanic crust of the Philippine Plate obliquely subducting beneath the continental crust of the Eurasian Plate at a rate of approximately 52 mm/yr.



The largest earthquake to have been recorded along the Ryukyu Trench, the 1968 Hyūga-nada earthquake, was magnitude 7.5 and occurred along the northernmost part of the trench on April 1, 1968. This earthquake also produced a tsunami.



The deepest spot in the Ryukyu trench is about 180 kilometers south of Okinawa at N 24° 29.569' E 127° 20.564'.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

HCF oruvaq ovt ebpx (gb gur yrsg bs gur ovt, boivbhf ebpx oruvaq gur zbahzragf).

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)