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Anatolian Plate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (141 words) |
 | The Anatolian Plate is a continential tectonic plate consisting primarily of the country of Turkey. |
| The southerly side is both a convergent boundary and a transform boundary with the African Plate to the west and the Arabian Plate to the east. |
| The westerly side is a convergent boundary with the Eurasian Plate as Turkey is being pushed west as it is being squeezed between the Eurasian Plate on the north and both the African Plate and the Arabian Plate on the south. |
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| While California's quakes result from the intersection of two plates (the North American and the Pacific), Turkey and the Anatolian Plate are being squeezed by three pretty good sized ones: the Eurasian, Arabian and African plates. |
| The result is that the Anatolian plate is moving about 30 millimeters per year, relative to the Eurasian plate. |
| The movement occurs along the North Anatolian Fault that ruptured this past August, and pushes or rotates the Anatolian plate counterclockwise (to the west). |
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