Caribbean plate

Caribbean plate
Type	Minor
Approximate area	3,300,000 km2[1]
Movement1	north-west
Speed1	10-11mm/year
Features	Central America, Greater Antilles, Lesser Antilles Caribbean Sea
1Relative to the African plate

The Caribbean plate is a mostly oceanic tectonic plate underlying Central America and the Caribbean Sea off the northern coast of South America.

Roughly 3.2 million square kilometres (1.2 million square miles) in area, the Caribbean plate borders the North American plate, the South American plate, the Nazca plate and the Cocos plate. These borders are regions of intense seismic activity, including frequent earthquakes, occasional tsunamis,^[2] and volcanic eruptions.