Caribbean Plate

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The Caribbean Plate is a major tectonic plate underlying Central America and the Caribbean Sea, whose interactions with surrounding plates shape the region’s earthquakes, volcanoes, and deep ocean trenches.

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AI-generated illustration of Caribbean Plate

This AI-generated illustration was produced by black-forest-labs/FLUX.2-dev (1024x1024) from a prompt written by openai/gpt-oss-120b from the entity's label + description.

Prompt

Generate an image of the Caribbean Plate (The Caribbean Plate is a major tectonic plate underlying Central America and the Caribbean Sea, whose interactions with surrounding plates shape the region’s earthquakes, volcanoes, and deep ocean trenches.)

All labels observed (3)

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf lithospheric plate ⓘ
tectonic plate ⓘ
associatedWithFeature Cayman Trough ⓘ
Central American volcanic arc ⓘ
Lesser Antilles volcanic arc ⓘ
linked to: Lesser Antilles

Middle America Trench ⓘ
Puerto Rico Trench ⓘ
associatedWithHazard earthquakes ⓘ
tsunamis ⓘ
volcanic eruptions ⓘ
boundedToEastBy subduction of Atlantic oceanic lithosphere beneath Caribbean Plate ⓘ
boundedToNorthBy transform faults and subduction zones with North American Plate ⓘ
boundedToSouthBy complex convergent boundary with South American Plate ⓘ
boundedToWestBy subduction of Cocos Plate beneath Caribbean Plate ⓘ
containsContinentalCrust Greater Antilles islands ⓘ
linked to: Greater Antilles

parts of Central America ⓘ
hasApproximateArea 3.2 million square kilometers ⓘ
hasBoundaryType convergent boundary ⓘ
divergent boundary ⓘ
subduction zone ⓘ
transform boundary ⓘ
hasBoundaryWith Cocos Plate ⓘ
Nazca Plate ⓘ
North American Plate ⓘ
Pacific Plate ⓘ
South American Plate ⓘ
hasSeismicZone Enriquillo–Plantain Garden fault zone ⓘ
Septentrional-Oriente fault zone ⓘ
hasVolcanicArc Central America volcanic front ⓘ
Lesser Antilles arc ⓘ
linked to: Lesser Antilles
influencesCountry Costa Rica ⓘ
Dominican Republic ⓘ
Guatemala ⓘ
Haiti ⓘ
Jamaica ⓘ
Nicaragua ⓘ
Panama ⓘ
Puerto Rico ⓘ
influencesRegion Central America ⓘ
Greater Antilles ⓘ
Lesser Antilles ⓘ
isMostlyOceanic true ⓘ
isOverriddenBy North American Plate ⓘ
locatedIn Caribbean Sea region ⓘ
linked to: Caribbean Sea

Central America region ⓘ
linked to: Central America
motionRelativeToNorthAmericanPlate westward ⓘ
motionRelativeToSouthAmericanPlate northwestward ⓘ
overrides Cocos Plate ⓘ
Nazca Plate ⓘ
partOf Earth lithosphere ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (67)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Puerto Rico Trench → separates → Caribbean Plate ⓘ
Isthmus of Panama → locatedOnTectonicPlate → Caribbean Plate ⓘ
North American Plate → hasBoundaryWith → Caribbean Plate ⓘ
Nazca Plate → bordersPlate → Caribbean Plate ⓘ
Cocos Plate → borders → Caribbean Plate ⓘ
Cocos Plate → subductsBeneath → Caribbean Plate ⓘ
Cocos Plate → movesRelativeTo → Caribbean Plate ⓘ
Cocos Plate → overriddenBy → Caribbean Plate at Central America ⓘ
linked to: Caribbean Plate
Caribbean Sea → hasPart → Caribbean Plate ⓘ
South American Plate → borders → Caribbean Plate ⓘ
Brownson Deep → tectonicPlate → Caribbean Plate ⓘ
African Plate → boundedBy → Caribbean Plate ⓘ
Farallon Plate → subductedBeneath → Caribbean Plate ⓘ
Farallon Plate → wasAdjacentTo → Caribbean Plate ⓘ
Lesser Antilles → locatedOnTectonicPlate → Caribbean Plate ⓘ
Cocos Ridge → subductsBeneath → Caribbean Plate ⓘ
Middle America Trench → beneath → Caribbean Plate ⓘ
Cayman Ridge → tectonicSetting → Caribbean Plate ⓘ
Colombian Basin → underlainBy → Caribbean Plate ⓘ
Yucatán Basin → tectonicSetting → Caribbean Plate ⓘ
Venezuelan Basin → partOf → Caribbean Plate ⓘ
Fuego → tectonicPlate → Caribbean Plate ⓘ
Antilles → geologicalContext → Caribbean Plate ⓘ
Poás → locatedOn → Caribbean Plate ⓘ
Momotombo → locatedOnTectonicPlate → Caribbean Plate ⓘ
Turrialba → tectonicPlate → Caribbean Plate ⓘ
Gulf of Cazones → locatedOn → Caribbean Plate ⓘ
Apoyeque Volcano → overridingPlate → Caribbean Plate ⓘ
Mount Pelée → tectonicPlate → Caribbean Plate ⓘ
Leeward Antilles → tectonicSetting → Caribbean Plate ⓘ
Irazú Volcano → overridingPlate → Caribbean Plate ⓘ
Puerto Rican archipelago → locatedOn → Caribbean tectonic plate ⓘ
linked to: Caribbean Plate
Cocos–Caribbean plate boundary → plate2 → Caribbean Plate ⓘ
Beata Ridge → partOf → Caribbean Plate ⓘ
Colombian continental margin → adjacentTo → Caribbean Plate ⓘ
Belize margin → partOf → Caribbean Plate ⓘ
MacKenney cone → associatedWith → Caribbean Plate ⓘ
Stony Hill → locatedOnTectonicPlate → Caribbean Plate ⓘ
Cayman Trough transform system → separates → Caribbean Plate ⓘ
Aves Ridge → partOf → Caribbean Plate ⓘ