Download Tectonic Plates and Faults in Asia-Pacific

Tectonic Plates and Faults in Asia-Pacific
OCHA
North
American
Plate
Issued:
4 January
2010
Eurasian Plate
Tectonic Plates and Fault Lines
Okhotsk
Plate
Amur Plate
MONGOLIA
Regional Office for Asia-Pacific
The region is home to extremes in elevation and the world's most
active seismic and volcanic activity. Southwest of India, the Maldives
has a maximum height of just 230cm, while far to the north, the
Tibetan Plateau averages over 4,500m across its 2.5 million square
kilometres and is home to all 14 of the world's peaks above 8,000
metres. The Himalaya were born 70 million years ago when the
Arabian Plate collided with the Eurasian plate.
DPR KOREA
JAMMU & KASHMIR
RO KOREA
JAPAN
AKSAI CHIN
Jammu
and
Kashmir
CHINA
Pacific Plate
ARUNASHAL PRADESH
NEPAL
IRAN
BHUTAN
BANGLADESH
INDIA
The Pacific Ring of Fire is a belt of oceanic trenches, island arcs,
volcanic mountain ranges and plate movements that encircles the basin
of the Pacific Ocean. The ring is home to 90% of the world's
earthquakes - 95% if the Alpide belt is included, which runs through
Java and Sumatra. The Ring of Fire is a direct consequence of plate
tectonics and the movement and collisions of crustal plates, with the
northwestward moving Pacific plate subducted beneath the Aleutian
Islands arc in the north, along the Kamchatka peninsula and Japan in
the west. To the south a number of smaller tectonic plates are in
collision with the Pacific plate from the Mariana Islands, the Philippines,
Bougainville, Tonga, and New Zealand.
Taiwan
Province of China
MYANMAR
Philippine
PHILIPPINES
Plate
LAO PDR
THAILAND
Guam (U.S.)
CAMBODIA
VIET NAM
Indo-Chinese Plate
SRI LANKA
Northern Mariana Islands (U.S.)
Depth (m)
Elevation (m)
Below 5,000
250
5,000
4,000
500
750
3,000
1,000
2,000
1,000
1,500
2,000
500
100
2,500
3,000
Volcano
Faultline
4,000
5,000
Plate boundary
7,500
Above 7,500
Country Naming Convention
UN MEMBER STATE
Territory or Associated State
DISPUTED TERRITORY
Map Doc Name: OCHA_ROAP_Tectonics_v5_100104
Creation Date:
4 January 2010
Projection/Datum:
Behrmann/WGS84
Web Resources:
http://ochaonline.un.org/roap
MICRONESIA (FSO)
PALAU
BRUNEI
DARUSSALAM
Legend
MARSHALL ISLANDS
M A L AY S I A
SINGAPORE
K
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B
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N
D
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P a c i f i c
PAPUA
NEW GUINEA
SOLOMON ISLANDS
Map data source(s):
UN Cartographic Section, Global Discovery, NASA,
Columbia University, Smithsonian Institute
Tokelau (N.Z.)
Disclaimers:
The designations employed and the presentation of
material on this map do not imply the expression of any
opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of the
United Nations concerning the legal status of any
country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or
concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries.
Wallis and Futuna (Fra.)
SAMOA
American Samoa (U.S.)
FIJI
French Polynesia (Fra.)
Niue (N.Z.)
New Caledonia (Fra.)
TONGA
AUSTRALIA
Cook Islands (N.Z.)
Pitcairn (U.K.)
Norfolk Island (Aus.)
Antarctic Plate
2,000
O c e a n
TUVALU
TIMOR-LESTE
VANUATU
Indo-Australian Plate
1,000
Kilometers
A
O c e a n
Christmas Island (Aus.)
Cocos (Keeling) islands (Aus.)
Somali
Plate
T
NAURU
MALDIVES
NEW ZEALAND
United Nations Office for the Coordination
of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
Regional Office for Asia Pacific (ROAP)
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