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The Panama plate is a small tectonic plate that exists between two actively spreading ridges and moves relatively independently of its surrounding plates. [1] The Panama plate is located between the Cocos plate and the Nazca plate to the south and the Caribbean plate to the north.
Panama is located on the narrow and low Isthmus of Panama. This S-shaped isthmus is situated between 7° and 10° north latitude and 77° and 83° west longitude. Panama encompasses approximately 75,417 km 2 (29,119 sq mi). It is 772 km (480 mi) long, and between 60 and 177 kilometers (37 and 110 miles) wide.
Sangihe plate – Microplate within eastern Indonesia; Okinawa plate – Minor tectonic plate from the northern end of Taiwan to the southern tip of Kyūshū; Pelso plate – Small tectonic unit in the Pannonian Basin in Europe; Timor plate – Microplate in Southeast Asia carrying the island of Timor and surrounding islands
This microplate was previously assumed to be part of the Nazca Plate, forming the northeastern tongue of the Nazca plate together with the Malpelo plate. Bordering the Coiba plate on the east are the north–south striking Bahía Solano Fault and east of that, the Serranía de Baudó , an isolated mountain chain in northwestern Chocó , Colombia.
The geology of Costa Rica is part of the Panama Microplate, which is slowly moving north relative to the stable Caribbean Plate. [1] [2]In the late Cretaceous, an oceanic trench or backarc system formed in connection with a subduction zone, situated where the Isthmus of Panama is now located.
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The Panama fracture zone is a major, active right lateral-moving transform fault and associated inactive fracture zone which forms part of the tectonic boundary between the Cocos plate and the Nazca plate, the Cocos–Nazca spreading centre.