The Yangtze plate: where it is, its boundaries and its earthquakes
The Yangtze plate covers about 2.20 million km² and meets 5 other plates (Eurasia, Okinawa, Sunda, Amur…). 2 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
- Yangtze plate (YA)
- Area
- about 2.20 million km²
- Boundary
- about 7,134 km
- One plate going under
- 439 km (6%)
- Sliding past / complex
- 6,696 km (94%)
- Neighbours
- Eurasia (3,791 km), Okinawa (1,409 km), Sunda (906 km), Amur (589 km), Philippine Sea (439 km)
- Quakes, last 30 days
- 2 of magnitude 4.5 or more
- Strongest this month
- M4.7 75 km NNE of Yonakuni, Japan
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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