Yangtze Plate , also called the South China Block or the South China Subplate , comprises the bulk of southern China . It is separated on the east from the Okinawa Plate by a rift that forms the Okinawa Trough which is a back-arc basin , on the south by the Sunda Plate and the Philippine Sea Plate , and on the north and west by the Eurasian Plate . The Longmenshan Fault on the latter border was the site of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake
2008 Wenchuan earthquake
2008 Sichuan earthquake
Yangtze Plate