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The 50 pages that link to Pacific Plate, each with the reason it gives.

• Pacific OceanRelated: The ocean and plate share a name, but the plate is a geological structure, not a body of water.

• 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunamiRelated: Its descent beneath northeastern Japan loaded the fault that ruptured in 2011.

• Hawaiian IslandsRelated: Its northwestward motion carries islands away from the hotspot that formed them.

• Mariana TrenchRelated: Its great age makes it unusually dense, driving the steep descent that deepens the trench.

• San Andreas FaultRelated: One of the two plates whose relative motion the fault accommodates, at roughly 5 cm per year.

• Nazca PlateRelated: It borders the Nazca Plate at the East Pacific Rise, where the plates move apart.

• Philippine Sea PlateRelated: Its convergence with the Philippine Sea Plate drives subduction along the Izu–Bonin–Mariana system.

• Japan TrenchRelated: Its westward motion carries oceanic crust into the Japan Trench.

• Aleutian IslandsRelated: Its descent beneath the North American Plate fuels Aleutian volcanism.

• East Pacific RiseRelated: Its motion helps set the spreading rate along the ridge's western side.

• Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chainRelated: Its motion over the hotspot created the chain’s sequence of volcanoes.

• Mariana IslandsRelated: Its descent beneath the Mariana Plate fuels the arc's earthquakes and volcanism.

• Juan de Fuca PlateRelated: It borders the Juan de Fuca Plate at a spreading ridge and transform faults.

• 1964 Alaska earthquakeRelated: Its motion toward Alaska supplied the convergence driving the earthquake.

• Southern AlpsRelated: Its motion against the Australian Plate helps raise the range.

• Oceanic lithosphereRelated: Its extensive oceanic lithosphere is continually created and consumed around its margins.

• Challenger DeepRelated: Its descent beneath the Mariana Plate contributes to trench formation.

• Okhotsk PlateRelated: Its subduction beneath the Okhotsk Plate defines the region’s best-known boundary.

• Aleutian TrenchRelated: Its descent beneath North America produces the trench.

• Kuril–Kamchatka TrenchRelated: Its descent drives the trench and the region’s major earthquakes.

• Mauna KeaRelated: Its motion carried Mauna Kea away from the hotspot that formed it.

• Juan de Fuca RidgeRelated: The ridge separates this plate from the Juan de Fuca Plate.

• Line IslandsRelated: Its motion shaped the ages and alignment of volcanic seamounts beneath the chain.

• Lōʻihi SeamountRelated: Its motion carries Hawaiian volcanoes away from the hotspot that formed them.

• Tonga TrenchRelated: Its descent beneath the Tonga Plate creates the trench.

• Japanese island arcRelated: Its westward subduction drives volcanism and major earthquakes along northeastern Japan.

• Taupō Volcanic ZoneRelated: Its descent beneath New Zealand is the deep tectonic driver of the zone’s volcanism.

• Alaska PeninsulaRelated: Its movement beneath the North American Plate drives regional earthquakes and volcanism.

• Coast MountainsRelated: Its motion helps drive present-day deformation and earthquakes near the range.

• Izu IslandsRelated: Its subduction helps generate the volcanoes of the Izu Islands.

• Midway AtollRelated: Its movement over a hotspot helped carry Midway away from its volcanic source.

• Hawaii hotspotRelated: Its northwestward motion carried successive volcanoes away from the hotspot.

• John Tuzo WilsonRelated: Its movement over hotspots produces volcanic tracks that Wilson treated as plate-motion records.

• Median Tectonic LineRelated: Its long-term convergence contributed to the tectonic setting of southwest Japan.

• Pacific–Antarctic RidgeRelated: Its southern boundary with the Antarctic Plate is the Pacific–Antarctic Ridge.

• Viti LevuRelated: Its interactions with neighboring plates helped shape Fiji’s volcanic island arc.

• Itoigawa-Shizuoka Tectonic LineRelated: Its motion toward Japan contributes to deformation across the archipelago.

• RarotongaRelated: Its movement and associated volcanism help explain the geological setting of the Cook Islands.

• Bird's Head PeninsulaRelated: Its interactions with neighboring plates help shape New Guinea’s complex tectonic setting.

• KoryakskyRelated: Its descent beneath the Okhotsk region helps generate Koryaksky’s magma.

• Northland PeninsulaRelated: Its interaction with the Australian Plate shapes northern New Zealand’s geology.

• Whakaari / White IslandRelated: Its descent beneath the Australian Plate contributes to regional magma generation.

• Hoorn IslandsRelated: Its motion forms the regional tectonic setting of the islands.

• MoʻoreaRelated: Movement of the Pacific Plate over a hotspot helps explain the Society Islands’ volcanic chain.

• Ontong Java AtollRelated: Plate movement and oceanic volcanism shape the seafloor beneath the atoll's region.

• Papuan PeninsulaRelated: Its interactions with neighboring plates help shape the region’s active geology.