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The India plate: where it is, its boundaries and its earthquakes

The India plate covers about 12.4 million km² and meets 5 other plates (Eurasia, Somalia, Australia, Arabia…). 9 M4.5+ earthquakes inside it in the last 30 days. Its edges, coloured by what happens along them, on a live map.

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The facts

Plate
India plate (IN)
Area
about 12.4 million km²
Boundary
about 15,697 km
Pulling apart
7,416 km (47%)
Sliding past / complex
8,281 km (53%)
Neighbours
Eurasia (6,037 km), Somalia (3,818 km), Australia (3,598 km), Arabia (1,656 km), Burma (588 km)
Quakes, last 30 days
9 of magnitude 4.5 or more
Strongest this month
M5.2 Chagos Archipelago region

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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