Amur plate
The Amur Plate (also Chinese Plate ) is a possible tectonic plate on which Manchuria , the Korean Peninsula , the main western islands of Japan and the Primorye region lie. It is not yet clear whether this is an independent plate or if it is part of the Eurasian plate . The Amur plate was named after the Amur River, which forms the border between the Far East of Russia and the northeast of the People's Republic of China . The plate is bounded on the north, west and southwest by the Eurasian Plate, on the east by the Okhotsk Plate , on the southeast by the Philippine Lake District along the Suruga Trench , the Nankai Trench , the Okinawa Plate and the Yangtze Plate .
The Baikal Trench is considered to be the boundary between the Amur Plate and the Eurasian Plate. GPS measurements show that the plate is slowly rotating counterclockwise.
The Amur plate may have been involved in the origin of the Tangshan earthquake (1976) in China.
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literature
- Dongping Wei, Tetsuzo Seno: Determination of the Amurian Plate Motion. In: Martin FJ Flower, Sun-Lin Chung, Ching-Hua Lo, Tung-Yi Lee (eds.): Mantle dynamics and plate interactions in East Asia (= Geodynamics Series. 27). American Geophysical Union, Washington DC 1998, ISBN 0-87590-529-3 , pp. 337-346, doi : 10.1029 / GD027p0337 , ( abstract ).