Small tectonic plate in the southwest Pacific Ocean
The Tonga Plate is a small southwest Pacific tectonic plate or microplate. It is centered at approximately 19° S. latitude and 173° E. longitude. The plate is an elongated plate oriented NNE - SSW and is a northward continuation of the Kermadec linear zone north of New Zealand. The plate is bounded on the east and north by the Pacific Plate, on the northwest by the Niuafo’ou Microplate, on the west and south by the Indo-Australian Plate. The Tonga plate is subducting the Pacific plate along the Tonga Trench. This subduction turns into a transform fault boundary north of Tonga. An active rift or spreading center separates the Tonga Plate from the Australian Plate and the Niuafo’ou microplate to the west. The Tonga Plate is seismically very active and is rotating clockwise.
These were the plates that moved when the 2009 tsunami hit Samoa.
The TongaPlate is a small southwest Pacific tectonic plate or microplate. It is centered at approximately 19° S. latitude and 173° E. longitude. The...
plates and is subdivided into several small plates, the Tonga, Kermadec, and Niuafo'ou plates. The TongaPlate is facing the Tonga Trench. The Tonga Trench-Arc...
Pacific Plate. The Pacific Plate is subducting under the Australian Plate, which forms the Tonga and Kermadec Trenches, and the parallel Tonga and Kermadec...
oceanic Pacific Plate is subducting under the TongaPlate at the Tonga Trench driven by the mutual movements of the Australian and Pacific plates and local...
Small tectonic plate west of TongaTongaPlate – Small tectonic plate in the southwest Pacific Ocean Woodlark Plate – Small tectonic plate located to the...
Pacific plate under the Australia-India plate at the Tonga Trench. The Tongan Islands sit on the Australia-India plate just west of the Tonga Trench....
Tonga requires its residents to register their motor vehicles and display vehicle registration plates. Current plates are Australian standard 372 mm ×...
Plate to form the Andes. Subduction of the Pacific Plate beneath the Australian Plate and TongaPlate, forming the complex New Zealand to New Guinea subduction/transform...
at the Australian-Pacific plate boundary. It is formed by the Pacific plate subducting under the Australian plate. The Tonga-Kermadec Ridge, a frontal...
convergent boundary with the Indo-Australian Plate, subducting under it north of New Zealand forming the Tonga Trench and the Kermadec Trench. The Alpine...
the Pacific Plate under the Indo-Australian Plate, it runs parallel with and to the east of the Kermadec Ridge and island arc. The Tonga Trench marks...
Kermadec plates are among the fastest on Earth, being 8 cm (3.1 in) per year in the north and 4.5 cm (1.8 in) per year in the south. Tonga-Kermadec Ridge...
Balmoral Reef Plate's ocean crust is less than 12 million years old and is spreading between the New Hebrides and Tonga subduction. The plate forms the west...
original URL status unknown (link) Bird 2003, TongaPlate (TO), Kermadec Plate (KE), and Niuafo’ou Plate (NI), p. 28 Jackson, Matthew G.; Hart, Stanley...
Indo-Australian Plate. By contrast, the Kermadec and Tonga trenches represent the parts of the subduction zone where oceanic crust of the Pacific Plate is subducting...
earthquake occurred to the southwest of the Samoa Islands, along the TongaPlate boundary. The focal mechanism of this earthquake was unclear. This earthquake...
the Earth's distinctive plate tectonics. They mark the locations of convergent plate boundaries, along which lithospheric plates move towards each other...
Tonga. Located in the Haʻapai island group, it is a steep-sided composite cone with a summit caldera. It is part of the highly active Kermadec-Tonga subduction...
Sevens. Tonga won over Uruguay and advanced to the Plate quarterfinals from their pool. They lost to Canada 26 – 0 and finished in 13th place. Tonga finished...
smaller tectonic plates in collision with the Pacific Plate at the Mariana Islands, the Philippines, eastern Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Tonga, and New Zealand;...
of plate movement while off the Wairarapa shore this decreases to perhaps as low as 2 cm/year (0.79 in/year). It is the southern portion of the Tonga–Kermadec–Hikurangi...
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