tectonic plate

常見例句

That was the same day as the 9.0-magnitude quake and tsunami hit Japan; however, Japan is on a different tectonic plate.
同天，9.0級(jí)的地震及海嘯在日本發(fā)生。但這兩個(gè)地方并不處在同一個(gè)地殼構(gòu)造板塊上。
It struck 80 miles off the east coast the Japanese island of Honshu, where one tectonic plate is diving underneath another.
它到達(dá)了本州東海岸以內(nèi)80英里處，一塊構(gòu)造板塊在那里潛入了另一塊之下。
In addition, both regions reside within the Ring of Fire, which is a zone surrounding the Pacific Ocean where the Pacific tectonic plate and other plates dive beneath other slabs of Earth.
此外，兩個(gè)地區(qū)都駐留在火山圈內(nèi)，那是環(huán)繞太平洋的一個(gè)區(qū)域。在那里太平洋地殼構(gòu)造板塊和其它板塊潛于其它地球板塊之下。

The ocean overlaps one end of the plank and the other end is fixed to the ground (the interior of the tectonic plate).
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The effects of the 2011 tsunami in Japan were felt across the Pacific Ocean to earthquake-prone California, which shares the same tectonic plate.
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Think about a tectonic plate like a plank of wood.
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