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What direction the pacific plate is moving?
The Pacific Plate is moving northwest. It is moving at a rate of about 10 cm (4 inches) per year in relation to the North American Plate. This movement creates tectonic activity along the plate boundaries, leading to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
The rate of speed in which the Pacific and Philippine plate are moving?
The Pacific Plate moves at an average rate of about 2-9 cm per year in a west-northwest direction. The Philippine Plate moves at a rate of about 6-10 cm per year in a west-northwest direction as well. These two tectonic plates interact along the Philippine Trench and Philippine Fault Zone.
What is the plate that contain the most hot spots?
Probably the pacific Plate. The permanent hot spots are revealed by chains of volcanic islands. The chain itself reveals the direction the plate is moving.
How fast is the Scotia plate moving per year?
It moves extremely slowly as do all the plates
Describe the relative motion between the north American plate and the pacific plate?
The Pacific Plate is currently being subducted under the North American Plate. Subduction zones are when one plate is being forced under another at a convergent boundary (where two plates collide). When the Pacific Plate is being subducted under the North American Plate, the crust of the Pacific Plate melts, and creates volcanoes along the edge of the North American Plate. So, the relative motion of the two plates is that they are converging, or moving together.This same process is happening at the South American and Nazca Plates.
What direction is the Cocos Plate moving?
Cocos Plate is moving towards the north-east.
What direction is the Caribbean plate moving?
northwest they are moving
What direction is cocos plate moving?
Cocos Plate is moving towards the north-east.
What direction does the pacific plate moving?
eastward
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
What direction is the afrian plate moving?
It is moving to the west. As is the north American plate which will make the Atlantic Ocean bigger and the Pacific ocean smaller.
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 direction the pacific plate is moving?
The Pacific Plate is moving northwest. It is moving at a rate of about 10 cm (4 inches) per year in relation to the North American Plate. This movement creates tectonic activity along the plate boundaries, leading to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
How much does the Pacific plate move each year?
The pacific plate is moving in a northwesternly direction
What direction does the antarctic plate move?
The Antarctic Plate moves primarily in a northeasterly direction, away from the South Pole. It is one of the slowest moving tectonic plates, drifting at a rate of a few centimeters per year. The movement is driven by the process of seafloor spreading at the boundaries of the plate.
