Okinawa plate

{{short description|Minor tectonic plate from the northern end of Taiwan to the southern tip of Kyūshū}}

{{Infobox tectonic plate

| image = File:OkinawaPlate.png

| alt = The Okinawa plate

| type = Minor

| move_direction = south-east

| move_speed = 54mm/year

| geo_features = Ryukyu Islands, Kagoshima Prefecture (Ōsumi Peninsula, Satsuma Peninsula), Taiwan (New Taipei City, Keelung City, Yilan County), East China Sea, Kagoshima Bay, Okinawa Trough

}}

The Okinawa plate, or Okinawa platelet, is a minor continental tectonic plate in the northern and eastern hemispheres stretching from the northern end of Taiwan to the southern tip of the island of Kyūshū.{{Cite journal|last1=Sibuet|first1=Jean-Claude|last2=Letouzey|first2=Jean|last3=Barbier|first3=Florence|last4=Charvet|first4=Jacques|last5=Foucher|first5=Jean-Paul|last6=Hilde|first6=Thomas W. C.|last7=Kimura|first7=Masaaki|last8=Chiao|first8=Ling-Yun|last9=Marsset|first9=Bruno|date=1987|title=Back Arc Extension in the Okinawa Trough|journal=Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth|language=en|volume=92|issue=B13|pages=14041–14063|doi=10.1029/JB092iB13p14041|bibcode=1987JGR....9214041S |s2cid=55267835 |issn=2156-2202|doi-access=free}}{{Cite journal|last1=Lin|first1=Jing-Yi|last2=Sibuet|first2=Jean-Claude|last3=Lee|first3=Chao-Shing|last4=Hsu|first4=Shu-Kun|last5=Klingelhoefer|first5=Frauke|last6=Auffret|first6=Yves|last7=Pelleau|first7=Pascal|last8=Crozon|first8=Jacques|last9=Lin|first9=Cheng-Horng|date=2009|title=Microseismicity and faulting in the southwestern Okinawa Trough |journal=Tectonophysics|volume=466|issue=3–4|pages=268–280|doi=10.1016/j.tecto.2007.11.030|bibcode=2009Tectp.466..268L |issn=0040-1951}} The Okinawa plate hosts typical earthquakes, like the 1911 Kikai Island earthquake, and various types of slow earthquakes, including low frequency earthquakes,{{Cite journal|last1=Katsumata|first1=Akio|last2=Kamaya|first2=Noriko|date=2003|title=Low-frequency continuous tremor around the Moho discontinuity away from volcanoes in the southwest Japan |journal=Geophysical Research Letters|volume=30|issue=1|pages=20–1-20-4|doi=10.1029/2002gl015981|bibcode=2003GeoRL..30.1020K |s2cid=67820855 |issn=0094-8276|doi-access=free}} very low frequency earthquakes,{{Cite journal|last1=Nakamura|first1=Mamoru|last2=Sunagawa|first2=Naoya|date=2015-02-24|title=Activation of very low frequency earthquakes by slow slip events in the Ryukyu Trench |journal=Geophysical Research Letters|volume=42|issue=4|pages=1076–1082|doi=10.1002/2014gl062929|bibcode=2015GeoRL..42.1076N |issn=0094-8276|doi-access=free}} tremor,{{Cite journal|last1=Yamashita|first1=Y.|last2=Yakiwara|first2=H.|last3=Asano|first3=Y.|last4=Shimizu|first4=H.|last5=Uchida|first5=K.|last6=Hirano|first6=S.|last7=Umakoshi|first7=K.|last8=Miyamachi|first8=H.|last9=Nakamoto|first9=M.|date=2015-05-07|title=Migrating tremor off southern Kyushu as evidence for slow slip of a shallow subduction interface |journal=Science|volume=348|issue=6235|pages=676–679|doi=10.1126/science.aaa4242|pmid=25954006|bibcode=2015Sci...348..676Y |s2cid=206634346 |issn=0036-8075|doi-access=free}} and slow slip events.{{Cite journal|last=Nishimura|first=Takuya|date=2014-10-11|title=Short-term slow slip events along the Ryukyu Trench, southwestern Japan, observed by continuous GNSS |journal=Progress in Earth and Planetary Science|volume=1|issue=1|doi=10.1186/s40645-014-0022-5|issn=2197-4284|doi-access=free}}