If an ocean floor tectonic plate meets the edge of a continent and they push against each other, the heavier one sinks down and goes under the other one.

如果一个海底构造板块与大陆边缘接触并相互挤压，较重的板块下沉到另一个的下面。

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Instead, they are other volcano types, like strata volcanoes, for example, which are a result of the tectonic plate movement.

相反，它们是其他类型的火山，比如地层火山，是板块运动的结果。

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Wilson suggested that the long chain of volcanoes stretching northwest from Hawaii is simply the surface expression of a long-lived volcanic source located beneath the tectonic plate in the mantle.

威尔逊认为，夏威夷向西北延伸的火山长链只是一个长期存于板块下、地幔中的火山源在板块表面的表现。

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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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