Banda Sea Plate
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Minor tectonic plate underlying the Banda Sea in southeast Asia
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Sulawesi Island, Banda Sea | |
1Relative to the African Plate |
The Banda Sea Plate is a minor
seismically active area home to many volcanoes and the site of many large earthquakes, the largest of which was the 1938 Banda Sea earthquake which measured around 8.4 on the moment magnitude scale
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See also
- Banda Arc – Set of island arcs in eastern Indonesia
- List of earthquakes in Indonesia
References
- Bird, P. (2003). "An updated digital model of plate boundaries". Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 4 (3): 1027. .
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