The Pacific plate: where it is, its boundaries and its earthquakes
The Pacific plate covers about 105 million km² and meets 17 other plates (Antarctica, North America, Nazca, Australia…). 30 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
- Pacific plate (PA)
- Area
- about 105 million km²
- Boundary
- about 39,894 km
- One plate going under
- 12,672 km (32%)
- Pulling apart
- 23,492 km (59%)
- Sliding past / complex
- 3,729 km (9%)
- Neighbours
- Antarctica (17,007 km), North America (4,490 km), Nazca (4,433 km), Australia (2,057 km), Cocos (2,053 km), Juan de Fuca (1,897 km) and 11 more
- Quakes, last 30 days
- 30 of magnitude 4.5 or more
- Strongest this month
- M5.3 Balleny Islands region
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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