This map, created by Abel Gil Lobo for the website El Orden Mundial, shows the distribution and location of the main tectonic plates in the world.
Tectonic plates are fragments of the Earth's crust that float on the upper mantle. These plates collide and separate from each other, causing volcanic activity and earthquakes, as well as changes in the Earth's morphology over millions of years.
This map shows what are commonly considered to be the 15 main tectonic plates:
- North American Plate
- Pacific Plate
- Juan de Fuca Plate
- Coconut Plate
- Caribbean Plate
- Eurasian Plate
- Nazca Plate
- South American Plate
- Scotia plaque
- African plaque
- Arabic plaque
- Indian plate
- Philippine Plate
- Australian Plate
- Antarctic Plate
The map also includes some of the most active subplates, such as the Somali Subplate, the Amuria Subplate, and the Sunda Subplate.
In academia, plates are usually divided into seven primary tectonic plates (African, Antarctic, Eurasian, Indo-Australian, North American, Pacific, and South American), a variable number of secondary plates, those with greater activity at the edges of the main ones, and more than sixty microplates with limited activity.
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