The Nazca plate: where it is, its boundaries and its earthquakes
The Nazca plate covers about 16.1 million km² and meets 7 other plates (Pacific, Antarctica, Cocos, Easter…). 6 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
- Nazca plate (NZ)
- Area
- about 16.1 million km²
- Boundary
- about 13,622 km
- One plate going under
- 3,542 km (26%)
- Pulling apart
- 4,433 km (33%)
- Sliding past / complex
- 5,647 km (41%)
- Neighbours
- Pacific (4,433 km), Antarctica (3,954 km), Cocos (3,030 km), Easter (860 km), Juan Fernandez (551 km), Panama (512 km) and 1 more
- Quakes, last 30 days
- 6 of magnitude 4.5 or more
- Strongest this month
- M5.2 167 km WNW of Mejillones, Chile
Source
Bird (2003) PB2002 plate model · USGS. This page was built from the feed on 2026-10-11 15:03 UTC; the live map shows it as it is now.
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