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This is misleading in the present tense. Modern geophysical sources put the Indian plate at about 5 cm/year, while faster plates such as the Pacific move about 8 cm/year on average.
Full reasoning
The post says the Indian plate "moves the fastest among all plates." That is not correct as a present-day statement.
A 2022 Geophysical Research Letters paper comparing oceanic plate speeds states that the Indian plates are moving on average at 5 cm/yr, while the Pacific plate is one of the fastest in the world with an average speed of ~8 cm/yr. That directly contradicts the claim that the Indian plate is the fastest.
A 2007 Nature paper also explains the likely source of the confusion: India did reach very high speeds in the late Cretaceous (about 18–20 cm/yr), but it "slowed to ~5 cm/yr" after colliding with Asia about 50 million years ago. So the "fastest" description applies to a past geologic interval, not to the plate's present motion.
So, if the article means today's / ongoing motion, it is wrong. A more accurate wording would be that the Indian plate was among the fastest in the geologic past, but now moves at roughly 5 cm/year, slower than plates such as the Pacific.
2 sources
- On the Relationship Between Oceanic Plate Speed, Tectonic Stress, and Seismic Anisotropy - PMC
The Atlantic and Indian plates are moving on average at 2 and 5 cm/yr, respectively... the Pacific plate is one of the fastest in the world with an average speed of ~8 cm/yr.
- The rapid drift of the Indian tectonic plate | Nature
Plate reconstructions based on palaeomagnetic data suggest that the Indian plate attained a very high speed (18–20 cm yr−1 during the late Cretaceous period) ... and then slowed to ~5 cm yr−1 after the continental collision with Asia ~50 Myr ago.