The Arabia plate: where it is, its boundaries and its earthquakes
The Arabia plate covers about 4.90 million km² and meets 5 other plates (Eurasia, Africa, Somalia, India…). 2 M4.5+ earthquakes inside it in the last 30 days. Its edges, coloured by what happens along them, on a live map.
The facts
- Plate
- Arabia plate (AR)
- Area
- about 4.90 million km²
- Boundary
- about 10,635 km
- Pulling apart
- 3,160 km (30%)
- Sliding past / complex
- 7,475 km (70%)
- Neighbours
- Eurasia (3,329 km), Africa (3,160 km), Somalia (1,917 km), India (1,656 km), Anatolia (574 km)
- Quakes, last 30 days
- 2 of magnitude 4.5 or more
- Strongest this month
- M5.1 20 km SW of Hilvan, Turkey
Source
Bird (2003) PB2002 plate model · USGS. This page was built from the feed on 2026-10-11 14:01 UTC; the live map shows it as it is now.
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