Positioned as it is at the southern end of the Pacific "ring of fire", and at the convergence of the Indo-Australian and Pacific plates, New Zealand is a pretty seismic place.
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新西兰位于通常所说的环太平洋火山地震带的南端,太平洋板块与印度—澳大利亚板块交界处地壳以上的区域。
New Zealand lies at the southern end of the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, and above an area of the Earth's crust where the Pacific Plate converges with the Indo-Australian Plate.
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它正好处在太平洋地震带和板块交界处。
It is directly on the Pacific crack were there the tectonic plates are meeting.