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Table S1. Matrix of Plates and Models7
Reference # / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 / 12 / 13 / 14 / 15
Plate Name
Adria^ / X
Aegean Sea / X / X
Africa/Nubia / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X
Aleutia/Bering^ / X / * / X
Altiplano / X / X
America3 / X / X / X / X
Amuria / X / X / X / X / X
Anatolia / X / X / X / X
Antarctica / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X
Arabia / * / * / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X
Australia / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X
Azores^ / * / *
Baja^ / X
Balmoral Reef / X / X
Banda Sea / X / X
Birds Head / X / X
Burma / X / X
Capricorn^ / * / X / X
Caribbean / * / * / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X
Caroline / X / * / * / X
China/SChina4 / * / X / X / X / X
Cocos / * / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / * / X / X
Conway Reef / X / X
Danakil^ / X
Easter / X / X
Eurasia / * / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X
Explorer^ / X
Fiji5 / *
Futuna / X / X
Galapagos / X / X
Gonâve^ / X
Gorda^ / X
Hreppar^ / X
India / * / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X
Jalisco^ / X
Juan de Fuca / * / X / X2 / X / * / X / X
Juan Fernandez / X / X
Kermadec / X / X
Lwandle^ / X / X
Macquarie^ / X / X
Reference # / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 / 12 / 13 / 14 / 15
Reference # / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 / 12 / 13 / 14 / 15
Manus / X / X
Maoke / X / X
Mariana / X / X
Molucca Sea / X / X
Nazca / * / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X
New Hebrides / X / X
Niuafo’ou / X / X
N America / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X
N Andes / X / X
N Bismarck / X / X
N Galap. μPlate^ / X
Okhotsk / X / X / X / * / X
Okinawa / X / X
Pacific / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X
Panama / X / X
Persia6 / X
Philippine / * / * / X / X / X2 / X / X / X / X / X
Puerto Rico^ / X
Rivera / X / * / X / X
Rovuma^ / X
Sandwich / X / X / X
Scotia / X / * / X / X
Shetland / X / X
Sierra^ / X / X
Sinai^ / X
Somalia / * / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X
Solomon Sea / X / X
S America / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X / X
S Bismarck / X / X
S Korea^ / X
Sunda / X / X / X / X / X
Sur^ / X / X
Tarim^ / X / X
Tibet^ / X
Timor / X / X
Tonga / X / X
Victoria^ / X
Woodlark / X / X
Yangtze / X / X
No. of Plates / 131 / 11 / 15 / 8 / 11 / 12 / 11 / 14 / 19 / 52 / 25 / 10 / 29 / 11 / 758
Reference # / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 / 12 / 13 / 14 / 15
Notes
1 Two more unnamed plates
2 Solved separately
3 Disappears when separated into N and S America (Ball and Harrison, 1970)
4 Replaced by Yangtze
5 Now made of New Hebrides, Balmoral Reef, Conway Reef, & Futuna
6 Appears only once in this table, but see table S5.
7 This table includes all 52 of Bird’s plates plus 23 from table S2. Plates from tables S3-S8 are not included.
8 If tables S3-S8 are included, the total becomes 159.
^ Plate is included in table S2.
* Indicates no rotation vector available
References to column number plus name of model if available

1. Morgan (1968)
2. Le Pichon (1968)
3. Morgan (1971)
4. Chase (1971)
5. Minster et al. (1974) RM1
6. Chase (1978) PO71
7. Minster and Jordan (1978) RM2
8. DeMets et al. (1990, 1994) NUVEL-1A
9. Sella et al. (2002) REVEL
10. Bird (2003)
11. Kreemer et al. (2003) GSRM-1
12. Kogan and Steblov (2008)
13. DeMets et al. (2010) MORVEL
14. Argus et al. (2010)
15. This paper

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Table S2. List of twenty three plates added to the Bird (2003) catalogue.
Plate Name / Pole
Lat. °N / Pole
Lon. °E / Rot. CC
°/Ma / Ref. Plate / Reduced
Plate(s) / Geologic
Setting1 / Refs. / Area,
Sq km / Size Order
1 / Adria / 45.03 / 6.52 / 0.297 / Eurasia / Eurasia/Nubia / C, L / 1 / 167,811 / 13
2 / Aleutia/Ber. / -44.09 / 305.61 / 6.4 / NAmerica / NAmerica / C, O / 2 / 295,729 / 9
3 / Azores2 / * / * / * / * / Nubia / D, T, O / 3,4,24,25 / 16,433 / 22
4 / Baja / 45.20 / 316.09 / 0.04834 / Pacific / Pacific / D, T / 5 / 286,185 / 10
5 / Capricorn / 25.61 / 264.97 / 0.1691 / Australia / India/Australia / D, O / 4 / 5,105,100 / 1
6 / Danakil / 42.00 / 19.00 / 2.433 / Nubia / Nubia / D, L, O / 6 / 97,563 / 17
7 / Explorer / 54.80 / 243.38 / 3.1 / Pacific / Juan de Fuca / D, C, O / 7 / 26,472 / 20
8 / Gonâve / -20.00 / -71.00 / 0.16 / Namerica / Caribbean / T, L / 8 / 201,756 / 11
9 / Gorda / -30.00 / 50.80 / 1.1 / Pacific / Juan de Fuca / D, O / 23 / 37,719 / 19
10 / Hreppar / 32.55 / -29.13 / 0.1046 / NAmerica / NAm-Eurasia / D, L / 9,10 / 19,314 / 21
11 / Jalisco / -37.16 / -31.01 / 0.063 / NAmerica / N America / D, C, O, L / 11 / 46,291 / 18
12 / Lwandle / -28.53 / 51.44 / 0.07437 / Somalia / Nubia/Somalia / D, O / 4 / 2,710,640 / 2
13 / Macquarie / 59.20 / -8.00 / 1.686 / Pacific / Australia / D, O / 4,28 / 542,2323 / 7
14 / NGalap MP / 7.60 / 257.67 / 13.0 / Pacific / Galapagos / D, O / 12 / 1,559 / 23
15 / Puerto Rico / 69.10 / 91.00 / 0.023 / Caribbean / NAmerica/Carib / C, T, O / 20,21,26 / 138,958 / 14
16 / Rovuma / 30.20 / 216.33 / 0.0991 / Nubia / Somalia / D, O / 13 / 1,247,967 / 5
17 / Sierra Nev. / 6.57 / 218.61 / 0.2113 / NAmerica / NAmerica / T, L / 14,19,27 / 120,576 / 15
18 / Sinai / -12.95 / 116.64 / 0.0149 / Arabia / Nubia / T, L / 15,16 / 190,454 / 12
19 / S. Korea / -40.34 / -41.39 / 0.289 / Eurasia / Amuria / D, L / 17 / 102,191 / 16
20 / Sur / -86.50 / 25.42 / 0.2848 / Antarctica / S America / D, C, O / 4 / 1,281,120 / 3
21 / Tarim4 / -38.14 / -83.46 / 0.6028 / Eurasia / Eurasia / C, L / 18 / 404,932 / 8
22 / Tibet / 44.20 / 64.40 / 0.89 / Eurasia / Eurasia / C, L / 22 / 1,251,661 / 4
23 / Victoria / 8.37 / 32.59 / 0.1294 / Nubia / Nubia / D, L / 13 / 882,808 / 6
Average Area = 659,803sq km / Total Area = 15,175,471 sq km ( 2.98 % of Earth)
Reference plate is the plate about which the chosen plate is rotated. Reduced plate is the plate from which area is taken to maintain accurate total Earth area. * No rotation vector established.
1C, Convergent: D, Divergent: T, Transform: O, Ocean: L, Land. 2May be extinct. See ref 25.3Ref 28 suggests area ~2 times larger.4Thatcher (2007) has this plate too (see table S6). I have used Thatcher’s map which gives a slightly larger area. The difference rotation pole has a magnitude of about one tenth of the rotation poles for the plate wrt Eurasia.

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References for table S2.

1Weber et al. (2010)

2Cross and Freymueller (2008)

3Bastos et al. (1998),

4DeMets et al. (2010)

5Plattner et al. (2007)

6Eagles et al. (2002)

7Braunmiller and Nábělek (2002)

8DeMets and Wiggins-Grandison (2007)

9LaFemina et al. (2005),

10Perlt & Heinert (2006)

11Johnson and Harrison (1990)

12Klein et al. (2005)

13Stamps et al. (2008)

14Psencik et al. (2006)

15Pe'eri et al. (2002)

16Mascle et al. (2000)

17Jin et al. (2007)

18Kreemer et al. (2003)

19 McCaffrey (2005)

20Masson and Scanlon (1991)

21Ali et al. (2008)

22Avouac and Tapponnier (1993)

23Riddihough (1984)

24Madeira and Ribeiro (1990)

25Miranda et al. (1998)

26Mann et al. (1995)

27Sella et al. (2002)

28Cande and Stock (2004)

29Hammond and Thatcher (2007)

30Plattner et al. (2009)

31Wilson (1988)

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Table S3. Comparison of Southern California Shear Zone from Bird and Rosenstock (1984) and McCaffrey (2005)
Seventeen Plates from Bird and Rosenstock (1984) / McCaffrey in relation to Bird and Rosenstock / Fifteen Plates from McCaffrey (2005) / Bird and Rosenstock in relation to McCaffrey
No. / Plate Name. / Area, km2 / Plate Name / Area, km2
1 / Pleito / 498 / Sierra Nevada (C) / S Mojave / 2860 / N America
2 / Chino / 691 / W Baja (C) / Santa Ana / 3596 / La Jolla
3 / Redlands / 909 / Salton (C) / San Gabriel / 3768 / San Gabriel
4 / Tehachapi / 1271 / Sierra Nevada (C) / Salton / 4967 / Salton
5 / Carrizo / 1603 / Gt Valley Thrust B (C) / E Mojave / 9419 / E Mojave
6 / San Bernardino / 2101 / N Mojave (C) / Panamint / 9419 / Panamint, Inyo
7 / San Gabriel / 3787 / San Gabriel (C) / Anza / 9591 / Vallecito
8 / Catalina Basin / 4748 / Catalina (I) / †Gt Valley Thrust B / 9591 / Salinas, Carrizo
9 / Panamint / 4809 / Panamint (C) / Ventura (TR) / 11,988 / Santa Barbara, Coast R.
10 / Salton / 7132 / Salton (C), N America (I) / Inyo / 12,502 / Inyo
11 / Vallecito / 8829 / Anza (C) / †E Cal Coast Ranges / 13,273 / not covered (Pacific)
12 / Santa Barbara / 9634 / Ventura (C) / N Mojave / 16,098 / W Mojave, E Mojave, San Bernardino
13 / San Pedro / 10,740 / Catalina (I) / †W Cal Coast R / 18,496 / not covered (Pacific)
14 / W Mojave / 11,638 / N Mojave / W Baja / 22,264 / Santa Ana, La Jolla
15 / La Jolla / 12,181 / W Baja, Santa Ana / †Salinian / 23,120 / Salinas, Coast Ranges
16 / E Mojave / 16,422 / E Mojave, N Mojave / Total 15 Plates / 170,952
17 / Inyo / 16,937 / Panamint, Inyo / Mean 15 Plates / 11,397
Total 17 Plates / 113,930 / W Basin and Range / 80,492 / Mono
Mean 17 Plates / 6702 / E Basin and Range / 359,645
Santa Anna / I / Santa Ana, W Mojave, E Mojave / Sierra Nev / 120,576 / Sierra Nev, Pleito, Tehachapi, Carrizo
Mono / I / W Basin and Range / Catalina / I / San Pedro, Pacific, Catalina Basin
Sierra Nev / I / Sierra Nev, Gr Valley Thrust B / E Baja / I / Santa Anna
Salinas / I / Salinian / N America / I / S Mojave
Coast Ranges / I / Ventura
N America / I / S Mojave
I means that the plate area was undetermined because it was partly outside the study area. The seventeen numbered plates from Bird and Rosenstock and the
four indicated (†) plates from McCaffrey were used in the plate size analysis.

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Table S4. Thirty One Plates from Hammond et al. (2011)
No / Plate Number / Plate Name (NN= No Name) / Area , km2 / GPS Sites
1 / 5 / NN / 273 / 0
2 / 11 / NN / 287 / 2
3 / 10 / NN / 412 / 2
4 / 12 / NN / 426 / 1
5 / 19 / NN / 426 / 0
6 / 51 / NN / 444 / 0
7 / 44 / NN / 448 / 2
8 / 17 / NN / 524 / 1
9 / 8 / Carson / 609 / 3
10 / 24 / NN / 636 / 4
11 / 9 / Truckee / 663 / 6
12 / 47 / NN / 686 / 1
13 / 16 / NN / 699 / 3
14 / 60 / NN / 744 / 4
15 / 56 / NN / 816 / 3
16 / 46 / Cocoon / 820 / 2
17 / 29 / Lahontan / 833 / 2
18 / 37 / Fireball / 905 / 3
19 / 23 / Smith / 968 / 4
20 / 22 / Lake / 977 / 4
21 / 40 / CS East / 1031 / 1
22 / 38 / NN / 1035 / 5
23 / 41 / Fallon / 1080 / 4
24 / 18 / Virginia / 1089 / 3
25 / 14 / Pine Nut / 1308 / 5
26 / 39 / CS West / 1308 / 1
27 / 26 / Mason / 1443 / 7
28 / 32 / Sahwave / 1497 / 7
29 / 15 / Carson Domain / 1510 / 6
30 / 45 / Dixie Valley / 1873 / 5
31 / 49 / Clan Alpine / 2465 / 1
Total Area of 31 Plates, 28234 km2
Mean Area of Plates, 911 km2
Mean Number of GPS Stations, 2.98

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Table S5. Plates from Reilinger et al. (2006)
N / Plate Name / Area sq km / % Earth / Bird Area / Comments
1 / Aegean / 184,826 / 0.04243 / 321,835 / Used this area
2 / Alborz / 60,485 / 0.01186 / From Eurasia
3 / Anatolia / 522,995 / 0.10844 / 575,488 / Used Bird’s value minus SW Anatolia (see below)
4 / Arabia* / 4,899,268 / 0.96502 / 4,903,421 / Used Bird’s figure.
5 / Black Sea / 660,549 / 0.1295 / From Eurasia
6 / Caucasus / 168,474 / 0.03303 / From Eurasia
7 / Central Greece / 32,881 / 0.00645 / 2/3 from Bird’s Aegean. 1/3 from Bird’s Eurasia
8 / Central Iran / 714,532 / 0.14009 / From Eurasia
9 / Kavir / 289,663 / 0.05679 / From Eurasia
10 / LUT / 451,804 / 0.08858 / From Eurasia
11 / Marmara / 51,548 / 0.01011 / Was part of Bird’s Aegean
12 / North Greece / 53,205 / 0.01043 / From Eurasia
13 / SE Aegean / 63,540 / 0.01246 / Was part of Bird’s Aegean
14 / Sinai* / 215,613 / 0.04227 / Used result in table S2 (190,454 km2).
15 / SW Anatolia / 52,493 / 0.01029 / Was part of Bird’s Anatolia
TOTALS (-*) / 8,483,547 / 1.66775 / Average = 565,570 km2
Aegean, Anatolia, Arabia, were included in Bird’s catalogue. Sinai is in table S2. Total additional plates was therefore 11.

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Table S6. Eleven small plates from Thatcher (2007)
Number / Plate name / Plate symbol / Area,km2 / No. of GPS sites
1 / Eastern Tibet Himalayas / ETH / 108,935 / 3
2 / Qialan Shan / QS / 110,880 / 39
3 / Western Tibet Himalayas / WTH / 130,333 / 3
4 / Central Tibet Himalayas / CTH / 155,621 / 7
5 / Qaidam Basin / QB / 206,198 / 3
6 / Qiangtang / QT / 212,034 / 7
7 / East China / EC / 303,462 / 56
8 / Songpan / SP / 307,352 / 16
9 / Northeast Tibet / NET / 389,054 / 12
10 / Southeast Tibet / SET / 441,576 / 72
11 / Tarim Basin1 / TB / 597,198 / 21
1Tarim Basin also appears in table S2 but I have used the area given here.
Total area = 2,962,645 km2
Average area = 269,331 km2
Total no. GPS sites = 239
Av. No. GPS sites = 21.7
Table S7. Five plates from Meade and Hager (2001)
Number / Plate Name / Area, km2
1 / Issykul / 15,234
2 / Naryn and At-Bashi Basins / 16,872
3 / Chaktal / 28,519
4 / Kyrgyz / 33,114
5 / Ferghana Basin / 35,003
Average = 25,748 / km2 / TOTAL / 128,742
Table S8. Five plates from Wallace et al. (2004b)
Number / Plate Name / Area, km2
1 / Wairarapa / 15,526
2 / Axial Ranges / 18,108
3 / Central Hikurangi / 31,158
4 / Raukumara / 35,657
5 / Wanganui / 40,891
Average = 27,587 km2 / TOTAL 141,340

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Table S9. Seventeen plates from Meade & Hager(2005)
Number / Plate name / Area, km2
1 / Los Angeles / 1847
2 / Ventura Basin / 2099
3 / Palos Verdes / 2308
4 / Big Pine / 2661
5 / Oakridge / 3106
6 / San Bernardino / 3190
7 / San Gabriel / 3442
8 / Kern County / 5011
9 / Helendale / 5372
10 / Blackwater / 5540
11 / Salton / 6187
12 / San Diego / 7168
13 / E Mojave / 8101
14 / Mojave / 8898
15 / Elsinore / 8899
16 / Death Valley / 9444
17 / Coast Islands / 20104
Total area, 103,377 km2
Average area for seventeen plates, 6081 km2

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Table S10. List of 32 smallish plates and their geological settings
Plate Number & Name / Geological Setting / Area, km2
81 Shetland / Oceanic. Moves at about 4.3 mm/yr wrt Antarctica / 72,240
82 SE Aegean / Continental. Close to a subduction zone / 63,540
83 Alborz / Continental. Close to a subduction zone / 60,485
84 North Greece / Continental. Close to a subduction zone / 53,205
85 SW Anatolia / Continental. Close to a subduction zone / 52,493
86 Marmara / Mixed. Close to a subduction zone / 51,548
87 Jalisco / Continental. Close to East Pacific Rise & Subduction Zone / 46,291
88 Wauganui / Continental. Close to Hikurangi Trough – subduct, & transf. / 40,891
89 Gorda / Oceanic. Close to Gorda & Juan de Fuca spreading centers / 37,719
90 Raukumara / Continental. Close to Hikurangi Trough – subduct. & transf. / 35,657
91 Ferghana Basin / Continental. Zone of compression south of Kazak platform / 35,003
92 Kyrgyz / Continental. Zone of compression south of Kazak platform / 33,114
93 Central Greece / Continental. Close to a subduction zone / 32,881
94 Futuna / Oceanic. Bounded by 2 spreading centers, 1 TF & 1 subduct. zone / 32,062
95 C Hikurangi / Mainly oceanic. Collision w. Pacific plate / 31,158
96 Chaktal / Continental. Zone of compression south of Kazak platform / 28,519
97 Explorer / Oceanic. Bounded by Explorer Spreading Center / 26,472
98 Salinian / Continental. Runs between San Andreas flt. & Pacific plate / 23,120
99 Hreppar / Islandic. Bounded by Icelandic Spreading Centers / 19,314
100WCCR† / Continental. Runs between SA Fault & Pacific plate & NW of Salinian pl. / 18,496
101 Axial Range / Continental. Close to Hikurangi Trough – subduction & trans. / 18,108
102 Inyo / Continental. Sierra Nevada, Panamint, Basin and Range area / 16,973
103Naryn / Continental. Zone of compression south of Kazak platform / 16,872
104Azores / Oceanic. Close to mid-Atlantic ridge / 16,433
105East Mojave / Continental. SE of Inyo / 16,422
106 Wairarapa / Mixed. Near Hikurangi Trough – subduction and transform / 15,526
107Issykul / Continental. Zone of compression south of Kazak platform / 15,234
108Mohawk / Continental. Part of the Basin and Range province / 14,515
109ECCR / Continental. Between WCCR and Sierra Nevada / 13,273
110Galapagos / Oceanic. Close to ridge crest / 13,051
111La Jolla / Mixed. / 12,181
112 W Mojave / Continental. Part of the Basin and Range province / 11,638
†Western California Coast Ranges 21 Continental, 7 Oceanic, 3 Mixed, 1 Islandic

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