For example, given the current position of the Pacific Plate, Hawaii is above the Pacific Ocean hot spot.

比如，考虑到太平洋板块的当前位置，夏威夷位于太平洋热点之上。

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The natural history of the Hawaiian island chain clearly shows the movement of the Pacific plate over a fixed plume.

夏威夷岛链的自然历史清楚地显示了太平洋板块在一个固定的羽流上的运动。

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We have described the Pacific plate as being composed of four plates, not one.

我们已经描述了太平洋板块是由四个小板块组成，而不是一个。

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Scientists say the Pacific plate is moving toward the northwest, while the North American plate is moving more to the southeast.

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The large number of volcanoes around the Pacific plate has earned the name "Ring of Fire."

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One part of California is on what is known as the Pacific plate.

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Where the Pacific plate collides with the Indo-Australian plate, it is forced downwards into the trench, a subduction zone, and the volcanoes are carried with it.

BBC: Undersea mountains march into the abyss

The Australian plate borders the Pacific plate to the East (the Samoan quake occurred along this boundary), while on the Western side, it borders the Eurasian plate (where the Indonesia quake occurred).

CNN: Two quakes in the same region in a day - coincidence?

But on that fateful Friday, when the North American plate slid over the Pacific plate along a subduction zone running 130km (80 miles) off the Pacific coast of northern Japan, the shock leapt from the first segment to a second and on to a third, extending the fault zone some 400km and increasing its intensity more than 30-fold.

ECONOMIST: The myth and reality of the Japanese earthquake