Atlas · Plate boundaries
Where the ground is expected to move
141 plate-pairings from the PB2002 tectonic model. Convergent, divergent, transform. Ordered by length of recorded boundary.
Source · PB2002 (Bird, 2003) · republished via fraxen/tectonicplates (MIT).
- North American – Eurasian — 569 pts →
- Pacific – Antarctic — 302 pts →
- African – South American — 258 pts →
- North American – Pacific subduction 233 pts →
- Pacific – Australian subduction 219 pts →
- Australian – Antarctic — 209 pts →
- Eurasian – African subduction 193 pts →
- SO – African — 125 pts →
- SO – Antarctic — 113 pts →
- Nazca – Pacific — 108 pts →
- SO – Arabian — 108 pts →
- New Hebrides – Australian subduction 104 pts →
- Eurasian – Indian — 95 pts →
- Amurian – Eurasian — 94 pts →
- North American – African — 92 pts →
- Kermadec – Pacific subduction 88 pts →
- SO – Indian — 85 pts →
- Woodlark – Australian — 79 pts →
- African – Antarctic — 72 pts →
- North Andes – South American — 72 pts →
- Pacific – Okhotsk subduction 70 pts →
- Antarctic – Nazca — 62 pts →
- Nazca – South American subduction 62 pts →
- Kermadec – Australian — 57 pts →
- Antarctic – South American subduction 56 pts →
- Cocos – Nazca — 56 pts →
- Australian – SO — 55 pts →
- Nubian – Solomon Sea — 54 pts →
- Arabian – Eurasian — 53 pts →
- Caribbean – North American — 53 pts →
- Juan de Fuca – North American subduction 53 pts →
- Eurasian – Yangtze — 53 pts →
- Sunda – Australian subduction 51 pts →
- Scotia – Antarctic subduction 51 pts →
- Arabian – African — 51 pts →
- Philippine Sea – Mariana — 51 pts →
- Indian – Australian — 49 pts →
- Philippine Sea – Sunda subduction 47 pts →
- Scotia – South American — 47 pts →
- Caribbean – South American subduction 46 pts →
- Pacific – Juan de Fuca — 44 pts →
- Panama – Caribbean — 43 pts →
- Okhotsk – Amurian — 42 pts →
- Altiplano – South American — 42 pts →
- Cocos – Pacific — 39 pts →
- Tonga – Niuafoou — 37 pts →
- Rivera – Pacific — 37 pts →
- Balmoral Reef – Australian — 37 pts →
- Easter – Nazca — 37 pts →
- Tonga – Pacific subduction 36 pts →
- Caribbean – North Andes subduction 36 pts →
- Cocos – North American subduction 35 pts →
- Okhotsk – North American subduction 35 pts →
- Nazca – Panama — 35 pts →
- Nazca – North Andes subduction 34 pts →
- Okinawa – Philippine Sea subduction 34 pts →
- Yangtze – Okinawa — 34 pts →
- Sandwich – Scotia — 34 pts →
- Australian – Conway Reef — 32 pts →
- Niuafoou – Australian — 31 pts →
- Burma – Indian subduction 31 pts →
- Philippine Sea – Pacific subduction 30 pts →
- Pacific – Caroline — 30 pts →
- Philippine Sea – Caroline — 29 pts →
- Pacific – Nubian — 29 pts →
- Arabian – Indian — 29 pts →
- North American – Rivera subduction 28 pts →
- Balmoral Reef – New Hebrides — 28 pts →
- Pacific – Balmoral Reef — 28 pts →
- Easter – Pacific — 28 pts →
- South Sandwich – Woodlark subduction 27 pts →
- Mariana – Pacific subduction 27 pts →
- Tonga – Australian — 27 pts →
- Eurasian – Sunda — 27 pts →
- Sunda – Burma — 26 pts →
- New Hebrides – Pacific — 26 pts →
- Conway Reef – New Hebrides — 26 pts →
- Anatolian – Eurasian — 25 pts →
- Nubian – Manus — 25 pts →
- Timor – Australian — 24 pts →
- Molucca Sea – Sunda subduction 24 pts →
- Galapagos – Nazca — 24 pts →
- North American – South American — 23 pts →
- Okhotsk – Eurasian — 23 pts →
- Molucca Sea – Banda Sea — 23 pts →
- Galapagos – Pacific — 23 pts →
- Banda Sea – Timor — 22 pts →
- Shetland – Antarctic subduction 20 pts →
- Juan Fernandez – Pacific — 20 pts →
- Aegean Sea – African subduction 20 pts →
- Caroline – Nubian — 18 pts →
- Manus – Solomon Sea — 18 pts →
- Amurian – Philippine Sea subduction 17 pts →
- Cocos – Panama subduction 17 pts →
- Aegean Sea – Anatolian — 16 pts →
- Juan Fernandez – Nazca — 16 pts →
- Aegean Sea – Eurasian — 15 pts →
- Banda Sea – Sunda subduction 15 pts →
- Sandwich – South American subduction 15 pts →
- Anatolian – African subduction 15 pts →
- Yangtze – Sunda — 14 pts →
- Birds Head – Banda Sea subduction 14 pts →
- Solomon Sea – Woodlark — 14 pts →
- Solomon Sea – South Sandwich subduction 13 pts →
- Nazca – Altiplano subduction 13 pts →
- Anatolian – Arabian — 13 pts →
- Birds Head – Caroline subduction 13 pts →
- Australian – Maoke — 11 pts →
- Maoke – Birds Head — 11 pts →
- Amurian – Yangtze — 11 pts →
- Futuna – Pacific — 11 pts →
- Niuafoou – Futuna — 10 pts →
- Amurian – Okinawa — 10 pts →
- Balmoral Reef – Conway Reef — 10 pts →
- Caribbean – Cocos subduction 9 pts →
- Okhotsk – Philippine Sea — 9 pts →
- Philippine Sea – Yangtze — 9 pts →
- Molucca Sea – Birds Head subduction 9 pts →
- Caroline – Woodlark subduction 9 pts →
- Panama – North Andes — 9 pts →
- Woodlark – Maoke — 8 pts →
- Sunda – Birds Head subduction 8 pts →
- Sunda – Timor — 7 pts →
- Birds Head – Philippine Sea subduction 7 pts →
- Nubian – Woodlark subduction 7 pts →
- Juan Fernandez – Antarctic — 7 pts →
- Pacific – Niuafoou — 6 pts →
- Scotia – Shetland — 6 pts →
- Banda Sea – Australian — 6 pts →
- Kermadec – Tonga — 5 pts →
- Rivera – Cocos — 5 pts →
- Futuna – Australian — 5 pts →
- Galapagos – Cocos — 5 pts →
- Nubian – South Sandwich subduction 4 pts →
- Pacific – Woodlark subduction 4 pts →
- Burma – Australian subduction 4 pts →
- Burma – Eurasian — 3 pts →
- Australian – Birds Head — 3 pts →
- Sandwich – Antarctic — 3 pts →
- Pacific – South Sandwich subduction 2 pts →
- Woodlark – Birds Head — 2 pts →