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Okhotsk Plate
The
Okhotsk Plate
is a minor
tectonic plate
covering the
Sea of Okhotsk
, the
Kamchatka Peninsula
,
Sakhalin Island
and
Tohoku
and
Hokkaido
in
Japan
. It was formerly considered a part of the
North American Plate
, but recent studies indicate that it is an independent plate, bounded on the north by the North American Plate. The boundary is a
left-lateral
moving
transform fault
, the
Ulakhan Fault
. On the east, the plate is bounded by the
Pacific Plate
at the
Kuril-Kamchatka Trench
and the
Japan Trench
, on the south by the
Philippine Sea Plate
at the
Nankai Trough
, on the west by the
Eurasian Plate
, and possibly on the southwest by the
Amurian Plate
.
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