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What is the fastest moving tectonic plate?
The Pacific Plate moves faster than any other tectonic plate, averaging about 10 centimeters per year. Its swift motion leads to a range of dynamic geological phenomena, such as frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions along its boundaries.
What are the names of the plate involved in Santa maria volcano?
The plates involved in the Santa Maria volcano are the Cocos Plate and the Caribbean Plate. The Cocos Plate is subducting beneath the Caribbean Plate, leading to volcanic activity in the region, including the formation of the Santa Maria volcano.
In which direction is the Juan De Fuca Plate moving?
The Juan De Fuca Plate is moving eastward and subducting beneath the North American Plate along the Cascadia Subduction Zone.
What direction is the South American plate moving?
The South American plate is moving westward. This movement is in part due to the subduction of the Nazca plate beneath the South American plate along the west coast of South America.
What are the 8 minor lithospheric plates?
7
What direction is cocos plate moving?
Cocos Plate is moving towards the north-east.
What plate is moving the fastest?
The Pacific and Cocos plate.
Which two tectonic plates are moving away from each other fastest?
The Nazca plate and the Cocos (pacific) plate.
Which plate is subducting beneath South American plate?
Nazca
What direction is the Caribbean plate moving?
northwest they are moving
Which plate doesn't carry a continent?
The Cocos Plate.
What plate or plates does Africa sit on?
cocos plate
What direction does the pacific plate moving?
eastward
What earthquakes have happened in the cocos plate?
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In which direction is the indo-australian plate moving?
The Indo-Australian plate moves Northeast as the Pacific Plate moves around it in a Northwest direction as if rotating.
What direction is North American plate moving?
roughly southwest
Which plate lay next to the Caribbean plate?
the cocos plates are located next to the caribbean plate
