Okhotsk Microplate

adjacent to

another microplate

Amurian Microplate

random

rotation

GPS measurements and other studies show that the Okhotsk microplate is slowly rotating in a clockwise direction. Models indicate that it rotates 0.2 deg/Myr about a pole located north of Sakhalin.

subduction zone

The boundary between Okhotsk microplate and Pacific plate is a subduction zone, where the Pacific plate subducts beneath the Okhotsk Plate.

tags

tectonic platae

Wikidata

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1139220

Wikimedia

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Okhotsk_tectonic_plate

Wikipedia

Okhotsk microplate (Wikipedia) The Okhotsk microplate is a proposed minor tectonic plate covering the Kamchatka Peninsula, Magadan Oblast, and Sakhalin Island of Russia; Hokkaido, Kantō and Tōhoku regions of Japan; the Sea of Okhotsk, as well as the disputed Kuril Islands.