The Sandwich plate: where it is, its boundaries and its earthquakes
The Sandwich plate covers about 184,000 km² and meets 2 other plates (Scotia, Antarctica). 12 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
- Sandwich plate (SW)
- Area
- about 184,000 km²
- Boundary
- about 978 km
- Sliding past / complex
- 978 km (100%)
- Neighbours
- Scotia (886 km), Antarctica (92 km)
- Quakes, last 30 days
- 12 of magnitude 4.5 or more
- Strongest this month
- M5.1 South Sandwich 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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