The Tonga plate: where it is, its boundaries and its earthquakes
The Tonga plate covers about 254,000 km² and meets 4 other plates (Niuafo'ou, Australia, Kermadec, Pacific). 9 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
- Tonga plate (TO)
- Area
- about 254,000 km²
- Boundary
- about 1,621 km
- One plate going under
- 47 km (3%)
- Sliding past / complex
- 1,575 km (97%)
- Neighbours
- Niuafo'ou (767 km), Australia (557 km), Kermadec (251 km), Pacific (47 km)
- Quakes, last 30 days
- 9 of magnitude 4.5 or more
- Strongest this month
- M5.4 99 km SSE of Pangai, Tonga
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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