@sstronaut Africa and Eurasia are on different plates, with Africa still slowly colliding with Europe but also rifting into two plates itself. The Alps are not African but were thrust up by that collision.
By "Pacific Plate", what do you actually mean? The ocean floors are their own crustal plates very different from the continents - thinner and generally of basalt. The continents are much thicker rafts of granite; under all the cover rocks.
