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Caribbean Plate
The Caribbean Plate
TypeMinor
Approximate area3,300,000 km2[1]
Movement1north-west
Speed110-11mm/year
FeaturesCentral America, Greater Antilles, Lesser Antilles Caribbean Sea
1Relative to the African Plate
Volcanoes of the Caribbean.

The Caribbean Plate is a mostly oceanic tectonic plate underlying Central America and the Caribbean Sea off the northern coast of South America.

Roughly 3.2 million square kilometres (1.2 million square miles) in area, the Caribbean Plate borders the North American Plate, the South American Plate, the Nazca Plate and the Cocos Plate. These borders are regions of intense seismic activity, including frequent earthquakes, occasional tsunamis,[2] and volcanic eruptions.

  1. ^ "Sizes of Tectonic or Lithospheric Plates". About.com Geology. Archived from the original on 2007-02-09. Retrieved 2015-05-05.
  2. ^ Fernández-Arce, Mario; Alvarado-Delgado, Guillermo (December 2005). "Tsunamis and Tsunami Preparedness in Costa Rica, Central America" (PDF). ISET Journal of Earthquake Technology. Paper No. 466. 42 (4): 203–212. ISSN 0972-0405.

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