The Sunda plate: where it is, its boundaries and its earthquakes
The Sunda plate covers about 8.92 million km² and meets 8 other plates (Eurasia, Burma, Yangtze, Philippine Sea…). 59 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
- Sunda plate (SU)
- Area
- about 8.92 million km²
- Boundary
- about 7,021 km
- One plate going under
- 4,088 km (58%)
- Sliding past / complex
- 2,933 km (42%)
- Neighbours
- Eurasia (2,027 km), Burma (1,783 km), Yangtze (906 km), Philippine Sea (638 km), Banda Sea (562 km), Timor (419 km) and 2 more
- Quakes, last 30 days
- 59 of magnitude 4.5 or more
- Strongest this month
- M6.5 121 km NNE of Teluknaga, Indonesia
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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