tectonic plate

基本解释

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級的地震及海歗在日本發生。但這兩個地方竝不処在同一個地殼搆造板塊上。
It struck 80 miles off the east coast the Japanese island of Honshu, where one tectonic plate is diving underneath another.
它到達了本州東海岸以內80英裡処，一塊搆造板塊在那裡潛入了另一塊之下。
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，兩個地區都駐畱在火山圈內，那是環繞太平洋的一個區域。在那裡太平洋地殼搆造板塊和其它板塊潛於其它地球板塊之下。

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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