Tectonic Plates and Faults in Asia-Pacific OCHA IssuedN:o 4rt Jha Anmuearriyc a2n0 1P0late Regional Office for Asia-Pacific
Tectonic Plates and Fault Lines Eurasian Plate Legend Okhotsk The region is home to extremes in elevation and the world's most Depth (m) Elevation (m) active seismic and volcanic activity. Southwest of India, the Maldives Plate Below 5,000 250 MONGOLIA has a maximum height of just 230cm, while far to the north, the Amur Plate 5,000 500 Tibetan Plateau averages over 4,500m across its 2.5 million square 4,000 750 kilometres and is home to all 14 of the world's peaks above 8,000 3,000 1,000 DPR KOREA metres. The Himalaya were born 70 million years ago when the 2,000 1,500 JAMMU & KASHMIR Arabian Plate collided with the Eurasian plate. RO KOREA 1,000 2,000 Jammu AKSAI CHIN and CHINA JAPAN 500 2,500 Kashmir The Pacific Ring of Fire is a belt of oceanic trenches, island arcs, 100 3,000 volcanic mountain ranges and plate movements that encircles the basin Volcano 4,000 ARUNASHAL PRADESH Pacific Plate NEPAL of the Pacific Ocean. The ring is home to 90% of the world's Faultline 5,000 IRAN BHUTAN earthquakes - 95% if the Alpide belt is included, which runs through Plate boundary 7,500 BANGLADESH Java and Sumatra. The Ring of Fire is a direct consequence of plate Above 7,500 Taiwan tectonics and the movement and collisions of crustal plates, with the INDIA Province of China MYANMAR northwestward moving Pacific plate subducted beneath the Aleutian Country Naming Convention LAO PDR Philippine Islands arc in the north, along the Kamchatka peninsula and Japan in UN MEMBER STATE the west. To the south a number of smaller tectonic plates are in Territory or Associated State PHILIPPINES Northern Mariana Islands (U.S.) Plate collision with the Pacific plate from the Mariana Islands, the Philippines, DISPUTED TERRITORY THAILAND Bougainville, Tonga, and New Zealand. CAMBODIA Guam (U.S.) VIET NAM Map Doc Name: OCHA_ROAP_Tectonics_v5_100104 SRI LANKA Indo-Chinese Plate PALAU MICRONESIA (FSO) Creation Date: 4 January 2010 BRUNEI Projection/Datum: Behrmann/WGS84 MARSHALL ISLANDS DARUSSALAM Web Resources: http://ochaonline.un.org/roap M A L A Y S I A SINGAPORE K I R I B A T I 0 1,000 2,000
MALDIVES NAURU Kilometers
I N D O N E S I A P a c i f i c O c e a n Map data source(s): I n d i a n O c e a n PAPUA SOLOMON ISLANDS UN Cartographic Section, Global Discovery, NASA, TUVALU Columbia University, Smithsonian Institute NEW GUINEA Tokelau (N.Z.) Christmas Island (Aus.) TIMOR-LESTE Disclaimers: The designations employed and the presentation of Cocos (Keeling) islands (Aus.) Wallis and Futuna (Fra.) material on this map do not imply the expression of any SAMOA opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of the American Samoa (U.S.) United Nations concerning the legal status of any VANUATU country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or FIJI concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. French Polynesia (Fra.) Niue (N.Z.) New Caledonia (Fra.) Cook Islands (N.Z.) Indo-Australian Plate TONGA Somali AUSTRALIA Pitcairn (U.K.) United Nations Office for the Coordination Plate of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Regional Office for Asia Pacific (ROAP) Norfolk Island (Aus.) Executive Suite, 2nd Floor, UNCC Building, Rajdamnern Nok Ave, Bangkok 10200, Thaniland
NEW ZEALAND Antarctic Plate