tectonic plates

基本解釋

Indonesia is located on the edges of tectonic plates, specifically the pacific, eurasian, and australian. As such, it is frequently hit by earthquakes.
印度尼西亞位于太平洋, 歐亞大陸, 和澳大利亞構(gòu)造板塊邊緣，正因?yàn)檫@樣，它頻繁被地震襲擊。
In 2007, off the coast of Japan, it became the first mission to study subduction zones, the area between tectonic plates that is the birthplace of many earthquakes.
2007年，在日本沿海，地球號(hào)開展了第一項(xiàng)任務(wù)：研究俯沖帶（地殼構(gòu)造板塊之間的區(qū)域，許多地震都發(fā)生在這種區(qū)域）。
Though intensely studied, the quakes have baffled scientists for decades -- with a few exceptions, strong earthquakes occur exclusively where tectonic plates are grinding past one another.
雖然仔細(xì)研究過，但是這些地震還是困惑了科學(xué)家們幾十年—除少數(shù)例外，強(qiáng)地震一般都會(huì)發(fā)生在構(gòu)造板塊絞合處。

The theory explains that as the sea floor spreads, the tectonic plates are pushed and pulled in different directions.
It is along or near this fault line that most of California's earthquakes take place, as the two tectonic plates move in different directions.
This same area is also where two major tectonic plates meet.

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