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Yangtze Plate
The
Yangtze Plate
, also called the South China Block or the South China Subplate, comprises the bulk of southern
China
. It is separated on the east from the
Okinawa Plate
by a rift that forms the
Okinawa Trough
which is a
back-arc basin
, on the south by the
Sunda Plate
and the
Philippine Sea Plate
, and on the north and west by the
Eurasian Plate
. The
Longmenshan Fault
on the latter border was the site of the
2008 Wenchuan earthquake
.
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