Small fully subducted tectonic plate near Indonesia
Molucca Sea Plate
Type
Minor
Movement1
north
Speed1
30-40 mm/year[1][2]
Features
Sulawesi, Molucca Sea
1Relative to the African Plate
Located in the western Pacific Ocean near Indonesia, the Molucca Sea Plate has been classified by scientists as a fully subducted microplate that is part of the Molucca Sea Collision Complex. The Molucca Sea Plate represents the only known example of divergent double subduction (DDS), which describes the subduction on both sides of a single oceanic plate.[3]
^Socquet A.; Simons W.; Vigny C.; McCaffrey R.; Subarya C.; Sarsito D.; Ambrosius B.; Spakman W. (2006). "Microblock rotations and fault coupling in SE Asia triple junction (Sulawesi, Indonesia) from GPS and earthquake slip vector data". Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 111 (B8). doi:10.1029/2005JB003963. Archived from the original on 2019-12-08. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
^Bellier O.; Sébrier M.; Beaudoin T.; Villeneuve M.; Braucher R.; Bourlès D.; Siame L.; Outranto E.; Pratomo I. (2001). "High slip rate for a low seismicity along the Palu-Koro active fault in central Sulawesi (Indonesia)". Terra Nova. 13 (6): 463–470. doi:10.1046/j.1365-3121.2001.00382.x.
^Zhang, Qingwen; Guo, Feng; Zhao, Liang; Wu, Yangming (May 2017). "Geodynamics of divergent double subduction: 3-D numerical modeling of a Cenozoic example in the Molucca Sea region, Indonesia". Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 122 (5): 3977–3998. Bibcode:2017JGRB..122.3977Z. doi:10.1002/2017jb013991. ISSN 2169-9313. S2CID 133371837.
the MoluccaSeaPlate has been classified by scientists as a fully subducted microplate that is part of the MoluccaSea Collision Complex. The Molucca Sea...
Philippine SeaPlate to the east. The MoluccaSea borders the Banda Sea to the south and the Celebes Sea to the west. To the north is Philippine Sea and to...
Halmahera Plate has recently (1990s) been postulated to be a microplate within the MoluccaSea Collision Zone of eastern Indonesia. The tectonic setting...
Sangihe Plate has recently (1990s) been postulated to be a microplate within the MoluccaSea Collision Zone of eastern Indonesia. The tectonic setting...
involved areas. The tectonic relationship of the Sangihe Plate, Halmahera Plate, and the MoluccaSeaPlate, plus the volcanic Halmahera Arc and the Sangihe Arc...
is bounded by the Bird's Head Plate of western New Guinea, Australian Plate, Timor Plate, Sunda Plate, and the MoluccaSea Collision Zone. The western border...
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the Philippine SeaPlate to the east, the MoluccaSea Collision Zone to the south, Sunda Plate to the southwest, and the South China Sea Basin to the west...
tectonic plate under the Pacific Ocean MoluccaSeaPlate – Small fully subducted tectonic plate near Indonesia Nazca Plate – Oceanic tectonic plate in the...
Sulawesi is an island lies on three separate plates, the Banda SeaPlate, MoluccaSeaPlate, and Sunda Plate. Seismic and volcanic activities are high on...
eastern Indonesia. It is considered to belong to the Halmahera Plate within the MoluccaSea Collision Zone. Potassium-argon ages of Neogene to Recent igneous...
(1) the MoluccaSea Collision Zone in Indonesia, in which the MoluccaSeaPlate subducts below the Eurasian Plate and the Philippine SeaPlate on two sides...
smaller plates. One of these, the MoluccaSeaPlate, is currently being subducted beneath both the Philippine SeaPlate and the Sangihe Microplate, causing...
Philippine Sea Plate, Bird's Head Plate, Halmahera Plate and the MoluccaSeaPlate. It has been implicated in numerous large earthquakes. It is one of...
regularly rocked by large earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, as the MoluccaSeaPlate is being consumed in both directions. A notable earthquake was the...
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the Moluccas (/məˈlʌkəz/) are an archipelago in the eastern part of Indonesia. Tectonically they are located on the Halmahera Plate within the Molucca Sea...
Philippines lies the MoluccaSea Collision Zone, which involves opposite facing subduction zones to either side of the MoluccaSeaPlate. To the west of the...
Australian Plate and the Sunda Plate. The MoluccaSeaPlate, Bird's Head Plate, Timor Plate, and Banda SeaPlate all help accommodate the elaborate plate boundary...
the South China Sea of about 1,500 metres (4,900 ft). It is created by subduction, in which the Sunda Plate (part of Eurasian Plate) is subducting under...
in the Bismarck Sea north of Papua New Guinea delineating the plate tectonic boundary between the Caroline and North Bismarck plates. There is only slight...
Philippines. Along this trench the oceanic crust of the Sunda Plate beneath the Celebes Sea is being subducted beneath the Philippines Mobile Belt. It forms...
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5 million square kilometers (2×10^6 sq mi). The Philippine SeaPlate forms the floor of the sea. Its western border is the first island chain to the west...
former oceanic crust boundary between the Pacific Plate and the now inactive North Bismarck Plate, in the area to the west of Papua New Guinea. To its...
Kelimutu The Banda Sea in the south of the Molucca archipelago includes a small group of islands. Three major tectonic plates beneath the sea, Eurasian, Pacific...
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