The Panama plate: where it is, its boundaries and its earthquakes
The Panama plate covers about 274,000 km² and meets 3 other plates (Caribbean, Nazca, North Andes). 48 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
- Panama plate (PM)
- Area
- about 274,000 km²
- Boundary
- about 2,060 km
- One plate going under
- 512 km (25%)
- Sliding past / complex
- 1,548 km (75%)
- Neighbours
- Caribbean (1,277 km), Nazca (512 km), North Andes (271 km)
- Quakes, last 30 days
- 48 of magnitude 4.5 or more
- Strongest this month
- M7.7 12 km WSW of Pitaloza Arriba, Panama
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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