The Arabian Plate is a minor tectonic plate in the northern and eastern hemispheres.. It is one of three continental plates (along with the African and Indian plates) that have been moving northward in geological history and colliding with the Eurasian Plate.This is resulting in a mingling of plate pieces and mountain ranges extending in the west from the Pyrenees, crossing …

Anatolia, also known as Asia Minor, is a large peninsula in Western Asia and the westernmost protrusion of the Asian continent. It constitutes the major part of modern-day Turkey.The region is bounded by the Turkish Straits to the northwest, the Black Sea to the north, the Armenian Highlands to the east, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and the Aegean Sea to the west. …

Lae is located on the Pacific Ring of Fire and geologic instability has produced numerous faults, resulting in earthquakes.. Lae sits between the larger Indo-Australian Plate and the Pacific Plate on the South Bismarck Plate in the Ramu-Markham Fault Zone where the New Guinea Highlands Deforming Zone and South Bismarck tectonic plates are converging at up to 50 mm/yr. The …

The Arabian Peninsula, (/ ə ˈ r eɪ b i ə n ... /; Arabic: شِبْهُ الْجَزِيرَةِ الْعَرَبِيَّة, shibhu l-jazīrati l-ʿarabiyyah, "Arabian Peninsula" or جَزِيرَةُ الْعَرَب, jazīratu l-ʿarab, "Island of the Arabs") or Arabia, is a peninsula of Western Asia, situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian Plate.At 3,237,500 km 2 (1,250,000 sq mi), the Arabian Peninsula is the largest peninsula in …

Tectonic setting. New Zealand sits astride the boundary between the Indo-Australian Plate and the Pacific Plate.In the South Island most of the displacement is taken up on the Alpine Fault passing to the north onto a set of strike-slip faults, the Marlborough Fault System.The sense of displacement across the plate boundary is oblique and most of the faults have a reverse …

Megathrust earthquakes occur at convergent plate boundaries, where one tectonic plate is forced underneath another. The earthquakes are caused by slip along the thrust fault that forms the contact between the two plates. These interplate earthquakes are the planet's most powerful, with moment magnitudes (M w) that can exceed 9.0. Since 1900, all earthquakes of magnitude 9.0 …

Although Afro-Eurasia is typically considered to comprise two or three separate continents, it is not a proper supercontinent.Instead, it is the largest present part of the supercontinent cycle.. The oldest part of Afro-Eurasia is probably the Kaapvaal Craton, which together with Madagascar and parts of India and western Australia formed part of the first supercontinent Vaalbara or Ur …

Indo-Australian Plate – A major tectonic plate formed by the fusion of the Indian and Australian plates (sometimes considered to be two separate tectonic plates) – 58,900,000 km 2. Australian Plate – Major tectonic plate, originally a part of the ancient continent of Gondwana – 47,000,000 km 2; Indian Plate – A minor tectonic plate that got separated from Gondwana – 11,900,000 …

The Yellowstone hotspot is a volcanic hotspot in the United States responsible for large scale volcanism in Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and Wyoming, formed as the North American tectonic plate moved over it. It formed the eastern Snake River Plain through a succession of caldera-forming eruptions.The resulting calderas include the Island Park Caldera, Henry's …

The Indo–Australian Plate was formed after the amalgamation of the Indian Plate and the Australian Plate some 45 million years ago. However, there is a relative movement between the Indian Plate and the Australian Plate. A process which would eventually split the Indo-Australian Plate in two probably started 8 to 10 million years ago and is still taking place. The 2012 …