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The Gorda Plate, located beneath the Pacific Ocean off the coast of northern California, is one of the northern remnants of the Farallon Plate. It is sometimes referred to (by, for example, publications from the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC) )〕 as simply the southernmost portion of the neighboring Juan de Fuca Plate, another Farallon remnant. Unlike most tectonic plates, the Gorda Plate experiences significant deformation inside its boundaries. Numerous faults have been mapped in both the sediments and basement of the Gorda Basin, which is in the interior of the plate south of 41.6°N.〔 Gulick, S., Meltzer, A., and S. Clarke (1998) Seismic structure of the southern Cascadia subduction zone and accretionary prism north of the Mendocino triple junction. ''Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth'', 103(B11).〕 Stresses from the neighboring North American Plate and Pacific Plate cause frequent earthquakes in the interior of the plate, including the M7.2 Humboldt County earthquake which caused $1.75 million in damages in 1980.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Historic Earthquakes )〕 The easterly side is a convergent boundary subducting under the North American Plate in northern California. The southerly side is a transform boundary with the Pacific Plate along the Mendocino Fault. The westerly side is a divergent boundary with the Pacific Plate forming the Gorda Ridge. The northerly side is a transform boundary with the Juan de Fuca Plate, the Blanco Fracture Zone. The subducting Gorda Plate is connected with the volcanoes in northern California, namely, Mount Shasta and Lassen Peak. Lassen Peak last erupted in 1914–1917. ==See also== *Mendocino Triple Junction *Cascadia subduction zone 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gorda Plate」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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