Pacific Plate

E3547

lithospheric plate oceanic plate tectonic plate

The Pacific Plate is the largest tectonic plate on Earth, underlying most of the Pacific Ocean and driving significant volcanic and seismic activity along its boundaries.

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Observed surface forms (3)

Surface form	Occurrences
Pacific Plate (eastern margin vicinity)	1
Pacific Plate and Antarctic Plate	1
Pacific Plate margin	1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	lithospheric plate ⓘ oceanic plate ⓘ tectonic plate ⓘ
ageRange	mostly Mesozoic to Cenozoic oceanic crust ⓘ
boundaryTypeIncludes	convergent boundaries ⓘ divergent boundaries ⓘ transform boundaries ⓘ
boundedBy	Antarctic Plate ⓘ Cocos Plate ⓘ Eurasian Plate ⓘ Indo-Australian Plate ⓘ Juan de Fuca Plate ⓘ Nazca Plate ⓘ Nazca microplates and smaller plates ⓘ North American Plate ⓘ Japan Trench ⓘ surface form: Okhotsk Plate Philippine Sea Plate ⓘ Rivera Plate ⓘ South American Plate ⓘ
containsFeature	Hawaii hotspot track ⓘ Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain ⓘ Pacific Ocean basin ⓘ
coversMostOf	Pacific Ocean seafloor ⓘ
drives	seismic activity around Pacific Rim ⓘ volcanic activity around Pacific Rim ⓘ
formedBy	seafloor spreading at mid-ocean ridges ⓘ
hasBoundaryFeature	East Pacific Rise ⓘ Japan Trench ⓘ Mariana Trench ⓘ Ring of Fire ⓘ San Andreas Fault ⓘ Tonga Trench ⓘ
hasType	mostly oceanic crust ⓘ
isLargest	tectonic plate on Earth ⓘ
locatedOn	Earth ⓘ
movementCauses	earthquakes ⓘ island arcs ⓘ subduction zones ⓘ volcanic arcs ⓘ
movesDirection	generally northwest ⓘ
movesRelativeTo	Eurasian Plate ⓘ Indo-Australian Plate ⓘ North American Plate ⓘ
namedAfter	Pacific Ocean ⓘ
overlies	Earth asthenosphere ⓘ
partOf	Earth lithosphere ⓘ
subductsBeneath	Eurasian Plate ⓘ Indo-Australian Plate in some regions ⓘ North American Plate ⓘ Philippine Sea Plate ⓘ

Referenced by (103)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Easter hotspot → locatedOn → Pacific Plate ⓘ

Maunga Terevaka → locatedOn → Pacific Plate ⓘ

Sandfly Island → locatedOn → Pacific Plate ⓘ

Mauna Loa → locatedOnPlate → Pacific Plate ⓘ

Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain → locatedOnTectonicPlate → Pacific Plate ⓘ

North American Plate → motionRelativeTo → Pacific Plate ⓘ

Eurasian Plate → movesRelativeTo → Pacific Plate ⓘ

Indo-Australian Plate → movesRelativeTo → Pacific Plate ⓘ

Okhotsk Plate → movesRelativeTo → Pacific Plate ⓘ

Rivera Plate → movesRelativeTo → Pacific Plate ⓘ

New Guinea → nearTectonicBoundaryWith → Pacific Plate ⓘ

Mariana volcanic arc → nearbyPlate → Pacific Plate ⓘ

Mariana Trench → oceanBasin → Pacific Plate ⓘ

Kermadec Islands → onTectonicPlateBoundary → Pacific Plate ⓘ

Tonga-Kermadec subduction system → overlies → Pacific Plate ⓘ

Philippine Sea Plate → overrides → Pacific Plate ⓘ

Blanco Fracture Zone → plateBoundaryBetween → Pacific Plate ⓘ

Kermadec Trench → plateBoundaryBetween → Pacific Plate ⓘ

Pacific-Antarctic Ridge → plateBoundaryBetween → Pacific Plate ⓘ

this entity surface form: Pacific Plate and Antarctic Plate

Explorer Ridge → plateOnOtherSide → Pacific Plate ⓘ

Hayward Fault → plateOnWestSide → Pacific Plate ⓘ

Tonga–Kermadec Arc → plateSubducted → Pacific Plate ⓘ

Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain → recordsMovementOf → Pacific Plate ⓘ

Juan de Fuca Plate → separatedFrom → Pacific Plate ⓘ

Blanco Fracture Zone → separates → Pacific Plate ⓘ

East Pacific Rise → separates → Pacific Plate ⓘ

Explorer Ridge → separates → Pacific Plate ⓘ

Gorda Ridge → separates → Pacific Plate ⓘ

Izu–Bonin Arc → separates → Pacific Plate ⓘ

Pacific-Antarctic Ridge → separates → Pacific Plate ⓘ

2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami → subductingPlate → Pacific Plate ⓘ

Aleutian Arc → subductingPlate → Pacific Plate ⓘ

Aleutian Trench → subductingPlate → Pacific Plate ⓘ

Bezymianny → subductingPlate → Pacific Plate ⓘ

Esmeralda Bank → subductingPlate → Pacific Plate ⓘ

Izu–Bonin Arc → subductingPlate → Pacific Plate ⓘ

Japan Trench → subductingPlate → Pacific Plate ⓘ

Kamchatka volcanic arc → subductingPlate → Pacific Plate ⓘ

Klyuchevskoy → subductingPlate → Pacific Plate ⓘ

Kuril–Kamchatka subduction system → subductingPlate → Pacific Plate ⓘ

Mariana Island Arc → subductingPlate → Pacific Plate ⓘ

Northeastern Japan Arc → subductingPlate → Pacific Plate ⓘ

Aleutian Islands → tectonicPlate → Pacific Plate ⓘ

Anatahan → tectonicPlate → Pacific Plate ⓘ

Forecast Seamount → tectonicPlate → Pacific Plate ⓘ

Horizon Deep → tectonicPlate → Pacific Plate ⓘ

Shiveluch → tectonicPlate → Pacific Plate ⓘ

Tasman Basin → tectonicPlate → Pacific Plate ⓘ

this entity surface form: Pacific Plate (eastern margin vicinity)