Earth's Tectonic Plates

Plates
Deep beneath California, the Pacific and North American Plates relentlessly grind past one another, straining or "loading" faults in the Earth's rigid crust above. The horizontal ("strike-slip") movement between these plates along the San Andreas Fault Zone is about 1.7 inches per year (40 mm/year), about as fast as your fingernails grow. At this rate, Los Angeles will be west of San Francisco in about 12 million years.
For more information: This Dynamic Earth

Plate Boundaries

Divergent

Transform

Convergent

Diffuse

Plate names

African Plate

Antarctic Plate

Arabian Plate

Australian Plate

Burma Plate

Caribbean Plate

Cocos Plate

Eurasian Plate

Indian Plate

Juan de Fuca Plate

North American Plate

Nazca Plate

Okhotsk Plate

Pacific Plate

Philippine Plate

Rivera Plate

Scotia Plate

South American Plate

Text 3D

San Andreas label

Cascadia label

Arrows 3D

Plates Legend

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