Philippine Plate
Philippine Plate One of the present-day minor lithospheric plates, the Philippine Plate is surrounded by subduction zones (the Ryukyu, Philippine, Marianas, and Izu-Bonin), and is splitting along the Marianas Islands, in the back-arc of the Marianas Trench-arc system, at about 60 mm/year.
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