The India plate: where it is, its boundaries and its earthquakes
The India plate covers about 12.4 million km² and meets 5 other plates (Eurasia, Somalia, Australia, Arabia…). 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
- India plate (IN)
- Area
- about 12.4 million km²
- Boundary
- about 15,697 km
- Pulling apart
- 7,416 km (47%)
- Sliding past / complex
- 8,281 km (53%)
- Neighbours
- Eurasia (6,037 km), Somalia (3,818 km), Australia (3,598 km), Arabia (1,656 km), Burma (588 km)
- Quakes, last 30 days
- 12 of magnitude 4.5 or more
- Strongest this month
- M5.2 Chagos Archipelago region
Source
Bird (2003) PB2002 plate model · USGS. This page was built from the feed on 2026-10-24 22:00 UTC; the live map shows it as it is now.
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