The Eurasia plate: where it is, its boundaries and its earthquakes
The Eurasia plate covers about 48.6 million km² and meets 11 other plates (North America, Amur, India, Africa…). 29 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
- Eurasia plate (EU)
- Area
- about 48.6 million km²
- Boundary
- about 40,766 km
- One plate going under
- 698 km (2%)
- Pulling apart
- 10,766 km (26%)
- Sliding past / complex
- 29,302 km (72%)
- Neighbours
- North America (10,766 km), Amur (6,586 km), India (6,037 km), Africa (4,738 km), Yangtze (3,791 km), Arabia (3,329 km) and 5 more
- Quakes, last 30 days
- 29 of magnitude 4.5 or more
- Strongest this month
- M5.3 Reykjanes Ridge
Source
Bird (2003) PB2002 plate model · USGS. This page was built from the feed on 2026-10-11 13:04 UTC; the live map shows it as it is now.
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