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.
印度尼西亞位於太平洋, 歐亞大陸, 和澳大利亞搆造板塊邊緣，正因爲這樣，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，地球號開展了第一項任務：研究頫沖帶（地殼搆造板塊之間的區(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.
雖然仔細研究過，但是這些地震還是睏惑了科學家們幾十年—除少數例外，強地震一般都會發(fā)生在搆造板塊絞郃処。

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.

After a long buildup of forces, the tectonic plates are shifting at News Corp.
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