The Burma plate: where it is, its boundaries and its earthquakes
The Burma plate covers about 515,000 km² and meets 3 other plates (Sunda, India, Eurasia). 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
- Burma plate (BU)
- Area
- about 515,000 km²
- Boundary
- about 2,454 km
- One plate going under
- 1,866 km (76%)
- Sliding past / complex
- 588 km (24%)
- Neighbours
- Sunda (1,783 km), India (588 km), Eurasia (82 km)
- Quakes, last 30 days
- 5 of magnitude 4.5 or more
- Strongest this month
- M5.3 81 km SSW of Banda Aceh, 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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