The Philippines is a part of the Eurasian Plate. The Eurasian plate consists of convergent boundaries. In a convergent boundary, tectonic plates move towards one another and collide in an active deforming area. Because of the pressure, friction, and plate material melting in the mantle, many earthquakes and volcanoes are common near convergent boundaries. In this destructive plate boundary, the subducting plate moves beneath the other plate. The subducting plate is usually a plate that contains oceanic crust and the other plate is usually made up of continental crust or oceanic crust as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_boundary
Incredible how that plate gets pushed to the west! (http://tectonicsofasia.weebly.com/philippine-sea-plate.html)
ReplyDeleteThank you for the images. It locates nicely the country. You'll have your hands full with hazards...
FYI. You have a typo in the first sentence: you show the map with the Philippines plate but say: 'The Philippines lands inside of the Eurasian Plate.'
Hello Mariah,
ReplyDeleteIt's crazy how Tectonic Plates work. I think it is pretty cool that they all fit together but yet they are not all the same.