Easter

Kenny Lienhard, Plates, 2026

Palette: Opal
Structure: Thrust
Drift: 3.1 cm a year, north-northeast

166,982 km², a micro plate

The Plate in detail

Easter, seed 42

Plate 42 of 52 · one of one

Traits

Palette: Opal
Structure: Thrust
Event: None
Faults: One
Scale: Standard
Hang: Level
Accent: Single
Heading: North-northeast, 26.2°
Speed: 3.12 cm a year

History

5.2 million years ago: This microplate was born when a new spreading rift began to push north beside the East Pacific Rise.

Sources: Rusby and Searle 1995, Journal of Geophysical Research 100:12617 · Naar and Hey 1991, Journal of Geophysical Research 96:7961

Technical notes

The file

90,003bytes, the whole work

74,112bytes of engine, gzip and base64

0network requests

2048 pxdrawn on up to 8 workers, at your screen’s size

One HTML file: the engine (151,144 bytes minified), this plate's data and a small loader. It reads your clock and slides the view to where the plate is today.

engine sha256 a7fbc03acc0fc9ba343881bb88ddaf2b7564564d8bc9cbed16e75e47e01fb3f2

Sources

The plate, its outline and its motionBird, P. (2003). An updated digital model of plate boundaries. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 4(3), 1027.
What covers it, which chose the paletteESA CCI Land Cover and Water Bodies, ETOPO 2022, Köppen-Geiger climate maps, NSIDC Sea Ice Index.