where is the pacific plate
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The outer shell There are two types of plates, oceanic and continental. An example of an oceanic plate is the Pacific Plate, which extends from the East Pacific Rise to the deep-sea trenches bordering the western part of the Pacific basin.
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- The denser oceanic plate is subducting beneath the less dense continental plate offshore of British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and northern California. The North American Plate is moving in a southwest direction, overriding the oceanic plate. The Cascadia subduction zone is where the two plates meet. Tectonic processes active in the Cascadia subduction zone region include accretion, subduction, deep earthquakes, and active volcanism of the Cascades.
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- The Northwestern Pacific Ocean region is made up of a succession of three tectonic plates. From the most western, moderately-sized and roughly equant Philippine Sea plate, to the small crescent-shaped Marianas Plate and lastly, to the east, the vast Pacific Plate.
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- Where the fault bends, plate motion is complex. The Pacific and North American plates push into each other, compressing the earth's crust into the mountains of Southern California and producing faults and earthquakes.
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Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean. The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth 's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south and is bounded by Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east.
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Pacific - Cascades volcanic province Not far off the coast of the North Pacific lies a spreading ridge; a divergent plate boundary made up of a series of breaks in the oceanic crust where new ocean crust is created. On one side of the spreading ridge new Pacific Plate crust is made, then moves away from the ridge.
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Pacific Ocean As the Pacific straddles the 180th meridian, the West Pacific (or western Pacific, near Asia) is in the Eastern Hemisphere, while the East Pacific (or eastern Pacific, near the Americas) is in the Western Hemisphere.
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North American Plate: Tectonics, Movement & Facts The North American Plate has a transform boundary with the Pacific Plate, dividing California at the San Andreas Fault. Here, the Pacific Plate moves northwest with respect to the North American Plate.
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Pacific Ocean Pacific Ocean. The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south and is bounded by Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east.
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- Figure 4— Map of the Pacific Northwest geologic setting. The area is the subduction zone that ruptured during the great earthquake of 1700. The line of contact between the Juan de Fuca and North American plates on the surface is on the western edge of the green area. The earthquake occurred on the interface between the India and Burma tectonic plates where the India plate is subducting beneath the overriding Burma plate.
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Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean stretches from the shores of Antarctica to the Bering Strait through 135° of latitude, some 9,600 miles (15,500 km). Its greatest longitudinal extent measures some 12,000 miles (19,300 km) along latitude 5° N, between the coasts of Colombia in South America and the Malay Peninsula in Asia.
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- Ontario Status. The Common Loon is Ontario's provincial bird. It is a common breeder in cottage country and northern Ontario and a common migrant on the Great Lakes. The Red-throated Loon is a rare breeder along the Hudson Bay coast in northern Ontario.
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Pacific Plate In the south-west, the Pacific Plate has a complex but generally convergent boundary with the Indo-Australian Plate, subducting under it north of New Zealand forming the Tonga Trench and the Kermadec Trench.he Pacific Plate is an oceanic tectonic plate that lies beneath the Pacific Ocean. At 103 million square kilometers, it is the largest tectonic plate.
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- In the middle of the eastern side is a transform boundary with the North American Plate along the San Andreas Fault, and a boundary with the Cocos Plate. The south-eastern side is a divergent boundary with the Nazca Plate forming the East Pacific Rise. The southern side is a divergent boundary with the Antarctic Plate forming the Pacific-Antarctic Ridge.
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Convergent Boundary Colliding Plates Pacific Plate The Pacific Ocean Plate is the largest plate on Earth. Great earthquakes and towering volcanoes surround the plate along the Pacific Ring of Fire.
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Indo-Australian Plate In orange and red is the Indo-Australian plate, shown as divided between the Indian Plate and the Australian Plate The Indo-Australian Plate is a major tectonic plate that includes the continent of Australia and surrounding ocean, and extends northwest to include the Indian subcontinent and adjacent waters.
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Pacific Ocean Facts for Kids The Pacific Ocean is located between Americas to the East of the Pacific Ocean basin and the Asian and Australian continents to the West. The Equator divides the Pacific Ocean into the North Pacific Ocean and the South Pacific Ocean.acific means peaceful , coming from the Latin pace for peace and the Pacific Ocean got its name from the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan in 1521 who called its waters mar pacifico which means peaceful sea.
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Transform Boundary San Andreas Fault. The San Andreas Fault is the transform boundary between the North American Plate and the Pacific Plate. During the 1906 San Francisco earthquake the northern section of the San Andreas Fault slipped northward along the fault from San Juan Bautista to Cape Mendocino, a total of 296 miles (477km).an Andreas Fault. The San Andreas Fault is the transform boundary between the North American Plate and the Pacific Plate. During the 1906 San Francisco earthquake the northern section of the San Andreas Fault slipped northward along the fault from San Juan Bautista to Cape Mendocino, a total of 296 miles (477km).
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Caribbean Plate The Cocos Plate in the Pacific Ocean is subducting beneath the Caribbean Plate forming the Central America Volcanic Arc with volcanoes in Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica.
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Volcanoes In Alaska, the Pacific Plate is subducting under the North American Plate, making the famously active string of volcanoes of the Aleutian Islands. In the Salton Trough of Imperial County, the Brawley Seismic Zone is thought to reveal the northern-most spreading center (divergent plate boundary) of the East Pacific Rise.he SAF is a transform plate boundary (strike slip fault) and so is not accompanied by volcanic activity. The Gorda Plate is subducting under the North American Plate north of Cape Mendocino and is the cause of the state's two active volcanoes, Mt Shasta and Mt. Lassen.
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Caribbean Plate The western section of the plate includes Central America. The Cocos Plate in the Pacific Ocean is subducting beneath the Caribbean Plate forming the Central America Volcanic Arc with volcanoes in Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica.
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Earthquake Facts & Earthquake Fantasy In California, for example, there are two plates-the Pacific Plate (which extends from western California to Japan, including much of the Pacific Ocean floor) and the North American Plate (which is most of the North American continent and parts of the Atlantic Ocean).n California, for example, there are two plates-the Pacific Plate (which extends from western California to Japan, including much of the Pacific Ocean floor) and the North American Plate (which is most of the North American continent and parts of the Atlantic Ocean).
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(to run animation, drag mouse across  image) Though huge, the Pacific is getting smaller. It was once much wider when all the continents were joined together in the supercontinent, Pangea. The Pacific ocean basin is getting smaller because the Atlantic Ocean is opening and North America and South America are moving westward. Most of the Pacific Ocean is underlain by the Pacific plate. The Pacific plate is bordered on the east by three smaller plates, the Nazca Cocos, and Juan de Fuca plates.
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Pacific Plate The Pacific Plate is an oceanic tectonic plate that lies beneath the Pacific Ocean. At 103 million square kilometers, it is the largest tectonic plate.he Pacific Plate is an oceanic tectonic plate that lies beneath the Pacific Ocean. At 103 million square kilometers, it is the largest tectonic plate.
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Ring of Fire Three-fourths of Earth's active and dormant volcanoes -- including Mount St. Helens, which is featured in the program Hell's Crust -- lie along this arc, at the margins of the Pacific Ocean, where the large Pacific plate and other tectonic plates dive beneath yet other plates.
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"What type of plate boundary is responsible for the ""ring of fire""?" Further west the Pacific plate is being subducted along the Kamchatka—Kurile Islands arcs on south past Japan. The southern portion is more complex with a number of smaller tectonic plates in collision with the Pacific plate from the Mariana Islands, the Philippines, Bougainville, Tonga, and New Zealand.