SUNDA PLATE

Sunda Plate:

• The Sunda Plate is a minor tectonic plate (Earlier, it was considered a part of the Eurasian Plate, but scientists have confirmed it to be an independent plate).
  
  
• Location: On Sunda plate, the majority of Southeast Asia is located. The plate includes South China Sea, Andaman Sea, parts of Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Philippines.
  
  
• Neighboring plates:
  • It is surrounded by convergent boundaries namely the Philippine Sea Plate to the East, and the Indo-Australian Plate to the South, which are subducting below it.
    
    
  • Its northern boundary is characterised by its slow collision with the Eurasian Plate.
    
    
  
  
  

Sunda Arc:

• The Sunda Arc is the area along the Sunda plate below which the Indo-Australian plate is being subducted.
  
  
• It extends from the Sumatra Island of Indonesia to Papua/New Guinea.
  
  
• The arc is characterized by a high degree of volcanic and seismic activity.