The Birds Head plate: where it is, its boundaries and its earthquakes
The Birds Head plate covers about 526,000 km² and meets 6 other plates (Maoke, Sunda, Molucca Sea, Banda Sea…). 5 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
- Birds Head plate (BH)
- Area
- about 526,000 km²
- Boundary
- about 1,546 km
- One plate going under
- 1,414 km (91%)
- Sliding past / complex
- 132 km (9%)
- Neighbours
- Maoke (547 km), Sunda (325 km), Molucca Sea (250 km), Banda Sea (237 km), Australia (132 km), Woodlark (54 km)
- Quakes, last 30 days
- 5 of magnitude 4.5 or more
- Strongest this month
- M5.2 130 km WNW of Ternate, Indonesia
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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