Celebes Sea
Historically, the Molucca Sea Plate has experienced hundreds of earthquakes ranging in magnitude. The most recent large earthquake occurred on January 2017 when a 7.3 magnitude earthquake deep beneath the Celebes Sea, which the USGS attributed to the “"deep reverse faulting within the inclined seismic zone defining the deep limit of the Molucca Sea microplate beneath the Celebes Sea Basin."”