Sunda Plate

The theory suggested a subduction zone lies along its northern border with the Sunda Plate.

The eastern, southern, and western boundaries of the Sunda Plate are tectonically complex and seismically active.

On this part of their mutual boundary, the Australia plate moves north-northeast with respect to the Sunda plate at about 59 mm/year.

At this latitude, the trench is the surface expression of the plate interface between the Australia plate and the Sunda plate.

In the region of the earthquake, the Australia plate moves toward the northeast at a rate of about 5 cm/year relative to the Sunda plate.

Mandalay lies along the Sagaing Fault, a tectonic plate boundary between the India and Sunda plates.

The Sunda Plate is the tectonic plate on which the majority of Southeast Asia is located.

To its east lies the Sunda Plate, from which it is separated along a transform boundary, running in a rough north-south line through the Andaman Sea.

The southern part of the Philippines lies above the complex collisional zone between the Philippine Sea Plate and the Sunda Plate.

A smaller geographic definition also exists, which excludes the land on the Sunda Plate, but includes Indonesian New Guinea as part of the Australian continent.

This group of earthquakes, in addition to the 2005 Sumatra earthquake, all ruptured along the megathrust that forms the interface between the Australian and Sunda Plates.

The Sagaing Fault is a continental transform fault between the India Plate and the Sunda Plate.

At the location of this earthquake, the Indo-Australia plate moves north-northeast with respect to the Sunda plate at a velocity of approximately 52 mm/yr.

The Indo-Australian Plate dips beneath the Sunda Plate along the Java Trench, which generates frequent earthquakes.

It originated near the Cotabato Trench, a zone of deformation situated between the Philippine Sea Plate and the Sunda Plate.

Instead, it occurred at greater depth, apparently where a mighty piece of Earth's crust, the Australia plate, contorts as it slides beneath the Sunda plate to the east.

According to USGS, it is likely that this earthquake occurred along the interface of the Indo-Australia Plate and the Sunda Plate.

The island of Sumatra lies above the Sunda megathrust, the interface between the subducting Australian Plate and the overriding Sunda Plate.

According to the US Geological Survey, the earthquake was caused by thrust faulting on the boundary between the Australian Plate and the Sunda Plate.

According to the U.S. Geological Survey "The earthquake occurred as a result of thrust-faulting on the boundary between the Australia plate and the Sunda Plate.

Running in a rough north-south line on the seabed of the Andaman Sea is the boundary between two tectonic plates, the Burma plate and the Sunda Plate.

The island of Bali forms part of the Sunda Arc, which formed above the convergent boundary where the Australian Plate is subducting beneath the Sunda Plate.

The motion of the Australia Plate is generally 50-66 mm/yr northward with respect to the Sunda Plate in the southern region, but diminishes to 40-50 mm/yr towards the north.

Tectonically, Palawan with the Calamian Islands, is considered to be a north-east extension of the Sunda Plate, in collision with the Philippine Mobile Belt at Mindoro.

South of Taiwan, the Philippine Sea Plate is subducting under the Sunda Plate, forming the Luzon Volcanic Arc (including Green Island and Orchid Island).