The Philippine Sea plate: where it is, its boundaries and its earthquakes
The Philippine Sea plate covers about 5.44 million km² and meets 6 other plates (Mariana, Caroline, Sunda, Okinawa…). 15 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
- Philippine Sea plate (PS)
- Area
- about 5.44 million km²
- Boundary
- about 4,941 km
- One plate going under
- 4,628 km (94%)
- Sliding past / complex
- 312 km (6%)
- Neighbours
- Mariana (1,682 km), Caroline (1,403 km), Sunda (638 km), Okinawa (468 km), Yangtze (439 km), Okhotsk (312 km)
- Quakes, last 30 days
- 15 of magnitude 4.5 or more
- Strongest this month
- M5.0 Mariana Islands 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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