The Okinawa plate: where it is, its boundaries and its earthquakes
The Okinawa plate covers about 325,000 km² and meets 3 other plates (Yangtze, Philippine Sea, Amur). 9 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
- Okinawa plate (ON)
- Area
- about 325,000 km²
- Boundary
- about 2,259 km
- One plate going under
- 468 km (21%)
- Sliding past / complex
- 1,792 km (79%)
- Neighbours
- Yangtze (1,409 km), Philippine Sea (468 km), Amur (383 km)
- Quakes, last 30 days
- 9 of magnitude 4.5 or more
- Strongest this month
- M5.6 74 km S of Yonakuni, Japan
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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