PhilippinePlate

Philippine Plate The Philippine Plate gets its name from the Philippines Islands, because it is just east of them. According to theory, the Philippine Plate is the 11th largest of the 30 plates. This plate is unique from the other plates because it is completely surrounded by Subduction Zones. **__Pacific Plate Boundary:__** This Plate boundary is a convergent boundary. The Pacific Plate is a subducting plate. **__Eurasion Plate Boundary:__** This boundary is held to the west of the Philippine Plate. Collision between these two plates has created Taiwan, and they continue to push together today. (Another subduction zone.) **__Caroline Plate Boundary:__** The Caroline Plate is to the south of the Philippine Plate. (Yet another subduction zone!) **__North American Plate Boundary:__** The North American Plate Boundary is to the North of the Philippine Plate. (Guess what? SZ) **__Amurian Plate Boundary:__** This plate boundary is possibly held to the North of the Philippine Plate. (SZ...again!!) **__Philippine Plate Volcanics:__** The volcanics of the Philippine Plate are because theis plate is part of the **Pacific Ring of Fire**. Here are some examples of explosions: > This picture was taken about five months before the eruption in 1984. Along came some HUGE volcanic eruptions: There were many other explosions created by the Pacific Ring of Fire, too many to list. **__There were also earthquakes found:__** **Mayon Volcano:** The volcano that erupted many times also produced many earthquakes, the latest in August, 2006. **__Sources:__** http://en.wikipedia.org/
 * **Mayon Volcano:** Has erupted forth-seven times, the last recorded eruption in 1984. This volcano is because of the convergent boundary between the Philippine Plate and the Eurasian Plate.[[image:305px-Mayon1984.jpg align="center" link="http://www.giftedkidsnetwork.com/wiki/Image:Mayon1984.jpg"]]
 * **Taal Volcano:** This Pelean-type, still active volcano was created because of the convergent boundary between the Eurasian and Philippine Plates. This volcano has had 33 eruptons, the last of which being in 1977.
 * **Mt. Tambora:** **This volcano was the largest volcanic eruption is recorded history!**
 * **Krakatoa: THis volcano, when it erupted in 1883, had drastic global effects.**
 * **Lake Toga: This volcao erupted aprox. 74,000 years before present, sending the world into a six-year-long volcanic winter!**