The Pacific Ocean floor, however, is being carried northeast by the underlying motion of the Cocos Plate.

The subduction of the Cocos Plate accounts for the frequency of earthquakes near the coast.

The remnants of this plate on the Surface of the Earth are the Juan de Fuca Plate and Explorer plate in the Northwestern USA / Southwestern Canada, and the Cocos Plate on the west coast of Mexico.

The fastest-moving plates are the oceanic plates, with the Cocos Plate advancing at a rate of 75 mm / yr ( 3. 0 in / yr ) and the Pacific Plate moving 52 – 69 mm / yr ( 2. 1 – 2. 7 in / yr ).

At this time, a spreading center between the Pacific Plate and the Farallon Plate ( which is now mostly subducted, with remnants including the Juan de Fuca Plate, Rivera Plate, Cocos Plate, and the Nazca Plate ) was beginning to interact with the subduction zone off the western coast of North America.

Panthalassa's oceanic plate remnants may be the Juan de Fuca, Gorda, Cocos and the Nazca plates, all four of which were part of the Farallon Plate.

* Cocos Plate, a tectonic plate beneath the Pacific Ocean

Panthalassa's oceanic plate remnants are understood to be the Juan de Fuca, Gorda, Cocos and the Nazca plates, all four of which were part of the Farallon Plate.

The remains of the Farallon Plate are the Juan de Fuca, Explorer and Gorda Plates, subducting under the northern part of the North American Plate ; the Cocos Plate subducting under Central America ; and the Nazca Plate subducting under the South American Plate.

The Cocos Plate is created by sea floor spreading along the East Pacific Rise and the Cocos Ridge, specifically in a complicated area geologists call the Cocos-Nazca spreading system.

The northern boundary of the Cocos Plate is the Middle America Trench.

The territory is administered from Canberra by the Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport, which is also responsible for the administration of the territories of Christmas Island, Cocos ( Keeling ) Islands, the Coral Sea Islands, Jervis Bay and Norfolk Island.

The Territory of the Cocos ( Keeling ) Islands, also called Cocos Islands and Keeling Islands, is a territory of Australia, located in the Indian Ocean, southwest of Christmas Island and approximately midway between Australia and Sri Lanka.

It is home to the only surviving population of the endemic, and endangered, Cocos Buff-banded Rail.

This article is about the demographic features of the population of the Cocos ( Keeling ) Islands, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.

For example, Doraemon is used as a promotional character by, by a moving company, and by Cocos, a restaurant chain.

The coconut palm, Cocos nucifera, is a member of the family Arecaceae ( palm family ).

It is the only accepted species in the genus Cocos.

Cocos nucifera is a large palm, growing up to tall, with pinnate leaves long, and pinnae 60 – 90 cm long ; old leaves break away cleanly, leaving the trunk smooth.

It is not to be confused with palm kernel oil derived from the kernel of the same fruit, or coconut oil derived from the kernel of the coconut palm ( Cocos nucifera ).

Commonwealth and off-shore protected areas in the Australian Capital Territory, the Northern Territory, the Christmas Island Territory, the Cocos ( Keeling ) Islands Territory, the Norfolk Island Territory and the Australian Antarctic Territory are managed by Parks Australia, a division of the Department of the Environment and Water Resources, with the exception of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, which is managed by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, a separate body within the department.

The Australian state of Western Australia is divided into 141 local government areas ( including Christmas Island and the Cocos ( Keeling ) Islands ).

Cocos Island () is an uninhabited island ( except for a permanent ranger station ) located off the shore of Costa Rica.

Surrounded by deep waters with counter-currents, Cocos Island is admired by scuba divers for its populations of Hammerhead sharks, rays, dolphins and other large marine species.

The extremely wet climate and oceanic character give Cocos an ecological character that is not shared with either the Galapagos Archipelago or any of the other islands ( e. g., Malpelo or Coiba ) in this region of the world.

Supporting this argument is the Dreamworks Interactive game Jurassic Park: Trespasser ( 1998 ) which used Cocos Island's topography as a substitute for the fictional island on which it takes place.

Also, " Isla Nublar " is intended to mean " Cloudy Island ", and Cocos Island is the only island with cloud forests in the eastern Pacific.

The closest land mass is the mainland of Ecuador800 km / 500 mi to the east ( the country to which they belong ), to the north is Cocos Island at and to the south is Easter Island and San Felix Island at.

Coconut oil is an edible oil extracted from the kernel or meat of matured coconuts harvested from the coconut palm ( Cocos nucifera ).

The Pacaya volcano is a part of the Central American Volcanic Arc, a chain of volcanoes stretching from the northwest to the southeast along the Pacific coast of Central America, formed by the tectonic subduction of the Cocos Tectonic Plate beneath the Caribbean Plate.

Creation of the Juan de Fuca ( including Explorer and Gorda ) and Cocos plates ( including Rivera ) and of the San Andreas Fault from the Farallon plate

Detail of the Cocos and Caribbean plate s

Cerro Negro is a polygenetic cinder cone that is part of the Central American Volcanic Arc, which formed as a result of the Cocos plate subducting under the Caribbean plate, at a rate of 9 cm / year.

Volatile trenches along the Cocos plate generally have had seismic events 30 to 70 years before 1985.

The devastating 1985 Mexico City earthquake was a result of the subduction of the Cocos Plate beneath the North American Plate.

Formed by the subduction of the Cocos Plate beneath the Caribbean Plate, along the Mesoamerican trench, the CAVF runs from volcán Tacaná in Guatemala to Irazú in Costa Rica.

The Cocos Plate in the Pacific Ocean is subducted beneath the Caribbean Plate, just off the western coast of Central America.

It has been introduced into a wide range of tropical and subtropical environments including Caribbean islands, some Indian Ocean islands ( Seychelles, Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion, the Cocos Islands and the Christmas Islands ) and some Pacific islands ( New Caledonia, Hawaii, French Polynesia, Okinawa, Vanuatu, Micronesia and the Galapagos archipelago )

At that time washed-up specimens were found on Cocos Island in the eastern Pacific, in South Australia and in South Africa.

The Treasure of Lima is a supposed buried treasure on Cocos Island in the Pacific left there by pirates.

It separates the Pacific Plate to the west from ( north to south ) the North American Plate, the Rivera Plate, the Cocos Plate, the Nazca Plate, and the Antarctic Plate.

* Another active example is the Galapagos Triple Junction, an R-R-R triple junction where the Nazca, the Cocos, and the Pacific Plates meet.

The Galapagos Rise is a divergent boundary located between the South American coast and the triple junction of the Nazca Plate, the Cocos Plate, and the Pacific Plate.

The earthquake occurred in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of the Mexican state of Michoacán, a distance of more than 350 km from the city, in the Cocos Plate subduction zone, specifically in a section of the fault line known as the Michoacán seismic gap at coordinates 18. 190 N 102. 533 W. The Cocos Plate pushes against and slides under the North American Plate, primarily along the coasts of the states of Michoacán and Guerrero in Mexico.

In the eastern Pacific, it is known to occur from Oregon to El Salvador ( including the Gulf of California ), around the Cocos and Galapagos Islands, and off Peru and Chile.