Sunda Plate

Sunda Plate
Sunda Plate
Type	Minor
Movement1	east
Speed1	11–14 mm/year
Features	Southeast Asia, Borneo, Java, Sumatra, South China Sea
	1Relative to the African Plate

The Sunda Plate is a minor tectonic plate straddling the Equator in the Eastern Hemisphere on which the majority of Southeast Asia is located.^[1]

The Sunda Plate was formerly considered a part of the Eurasian Plate, but the GPS measurements have confirmed its independent movement at 10 mm/yr eastward relative to Eurasia.^[2]

Extent[]

The Sunda Plate includes the South China Sea, the Andaman Sea, southern parts of Vietnam and Thailand along with Malaysia and the islands of Borneo, Sumatra, Java, and part of Sulawesi in Indonesia, plus the south-western Philippines islands of Palawan and the Sulu Archipelago.

The Sunda is bounded in the east by the Philippine Mobile Belt, Molucca Sea Collision Zone, Molucca Sea Plate, Banda Sea Plate and Timor Plate; to the south and west by the Australian Plate; and to the north by the Burma Plate, Eurasian Plate; and Yangtze Plate. The Indo-Australian Plate dips beneath the Sunda Plate along the Sunda Trench, which generates frequent earthquakes.^[1]

The eastern, southern, and western boundaries of the Sunda Plate are tectonically complex and seismically active. Only the northern boundary is relatively quiescent.

References[]

^ ^a ^b Whitten, T; Soeriaatmadja, R. E.; Suraya A. A. (1996). The Ecology of Java and Bali. Hong Kong: Periplus Editions Ltd. p. 87. ISBN 978-9625938882.
^ Socquet, Anne; Wim Simons; Christophe Vigny; Robert McCaffrey; Cecep Subarya; Dina Sarsito; Boudewijn Ambrosius; Wim Spakman (2006). "Microblock rotations and fault coupling in SE Asia triple junction (Sulawesi, Indonesia) from GPS and earthquake slip vector data". Journal of Geophysical Research. 111 (B8). Bibcode:2006JGRB..111.8409S. doi:10.1029/2005JB003963. ISSN 0148-0227.

v t Tectonic plates
Major	African Antarctic Eurasian Indo-Australian Australian Indian North American Pacific South American
Minor	Amurian Arabian Caribbean Caroline Cocos Indian Nazca Okhotsk Philippine Scotia Somali Sunda Yangtze
Micro	Adriatic Aegean Sea Anatolian Balmoral Reef Banda Sea Bird's Head Burma Capricorn Coiba Conway Reef Easter Explorer Futuna Galapagos Gonâve Gorda Greenland Halmahera Iberian Iranian Juan de Fuca Juan Fernández Kerguelen Kermadec Lwandle Madagascar Malpelo Manus Maoke Mariana Molucca Sea New Hebrides Niuafo’ou North Andes North Bismarck North Galapagos Nubian Okinawa Panama Pelso Philippine Mobile Belt Rivera Rovuma Sangihe Seychelles Shetland Solomon Sea South Bismarck South Sandwich Timor Tisza Tonga Victoria Woodlark
Historical	Baltic Bellingshausen Charcot Cimmeria Farallon Insular Intermontane Izanagi Kula Lhasa Malvinas Moa Phoenix
Oceanic ridges	Aden Ridge Cocos Ridge Explorer Ridge Galapagos Spreading Center Gorda Ridge Juan de Fuca Ridge South American–Antarctic Ridge Chile Rise East Pacific Rise Gakkel Ridge Pacific-Antarctic Ridge Central Indian Ridge Carlsberg Ridge Southeast Indian Ridge Southwest Indian Ridge Mid-Atlantic Ridge Kolbeinsey Ridge Mohns Ridge Knipovich Ridge Reykjanes Ridge
Ancient oceanic ridges	Aegir Ridge Alpha Ridge Kula-Farallon Ridge Mid-Labrador Ridge Pacific-Farallon Ridge Pacific-Kula Ridge Phoenix Ridge
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Sunda Plate

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Sunda Plate

Type	Minor
Movement¹	east
Speed¹	11–14 mm/year
Features	Southeast Asia, Borneo, Java, Sumatra, South China Sea
¹Relative to the African Plate