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Another piece to the puzzle: Both of these earthquakes occurred along opposite ends of the same tectonic plate, the Australian plate.
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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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The volcanoes are strung across several thousand kilometres of ocean floor and are moving westward on the Pacific tectonic plate at up to 6cm per year.
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Think about a tectonic plate like a plank of wood.
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Such concentrations are usually created by geological events, such as volcanic eruptions and tectonic plate shifts that steer hot metal-bearing fluids into upper, accessible parts of the Earth's crust, erosion, or massive sedimentary movements.
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The problem was that someone at Apple decided to rip Google Maps out of the iPhone and make Apple Maps the default mapping application, as part of the crushing tectonic plate-like battle between these online behemoths.
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There is no question that one of the 5 most powerful earthquakes on record (which forced the North American tectonic plate eastward by 66 feet), combined with 6-meter tsunami waves, creates a terrifying and formidable obstacle for energy facilities.
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Instead of occurring at a plate boundary along an area called a subduction zone, where one tectonic plate is diving beneath another, this earthquake occurred in the middle of an oceanic plate, where the faults in the crust essentially moved from side to side instead of up and down.
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Given all the discoveries that we have made from an up-close investigation of these ocean ridges, we can't help but wonder what we might find at the far end of the same plate tectonic cycle where seafloor is drawn back into the Earth's interior at deep-ocean trenches.
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