Taiwan lies near the junction of two tectonic plates and is frequently hit by earthquakes.
Taiwan, which lies near the junction of two tectonic plates, is regularly hit by earthquakes.
After a long buildup of forces, the tectonic plates are shifting at News Corp.
Foreign and domestic investors essentially stand on different tectonic plates, with little regulatory overlap.
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As the tectonic plates of monetary policy shift, the yellow metal is set to continue its climb.
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The Himalayas are fragile mountains formed from the tussle of tectonic plates that make the region seismically active.
On Earth, the continents lie on tectonic plates that move relative to each other, creating mountains and deep sea shelves.
Twenty percent of the world's earthquakes take place in Japan, which sits on the boundaries of at least three tectonic plates.
At the annual shareholder meeting this past Friday, after seemingly centuries of ossification, the tectonic plates shifted for Chesapeake and Aubrey.
And the magnetometer has found a distinctive magnetic signature which, some claim, suggests that Mars, too, may once have had tectonic plates.
The earthquake happened along a line where the Earth's Indo-Australian and Eurasian tectonic plates grind together, in the waters west of Sumatra.
In a hectic year, the tectonic plates of technology are shifting again.
If America's tectonic plates really are shifting, the Republicans may do better at the mid-term elections than anyone (including The Economist) had expected.
Real history is the slow-crawl study of small changes, from clan loyalties to price ratios gradually shifting tectonic plates that suddenly erupt into visible mountains.
It's a mysterious landscape of cliffs and valleys sculpted over millions of years by advancing and retreating seas and the jostling of tectonic plates.
This came as a big surprise to those of us who assumed such events were produced by natural collisions of constantly shifting Earth tectonic plates.
The shift in the tectonic plates running beside and under Japan was unparalleled in Japanese recorded history and one of biggest in recorded world history.
Severity is calculated by gathering earth-science data wind-patterns to assess the strength of a hurricane, shifts in tectonic plates to determine the strength of an earthquake.
Every so often, the tectonic plates of mainstream musical taste shift.
But these fairly common events occurred on entirely different tectonic plates.
Where Bell sees tectonic plates shifting and sudden upheavals of new mountains, Keegan sees one long wave, which has been ebbing and cresting over the centuries.
Scientists will need time to pick through the data but in general terms, the big driver here is the clash between the Arabia and Eurasia tectonic plates.
But it was only three years ago that vents were first detected in the Cayman Trough, a deep trench formed by the boundary between two tectonic plates.
But at the same time, there is a lot of instability below the surface, where different age groups are grinding against one another like shifting tectonic plates.
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And his 2004 assertion, that "the tectonic plates appear to be moving" within the government, seemed to suggest he thought Tony Blair should have made way for his successor sooner rather than later.
During Wednesday's quake, the tectonic plates were likely shifting sideways rather than up and down, leaving less of a chance for the giant waves, said Susanne Sergeant, a seismologist at the British Geological Survey.
Mr Hennessy is skilled at detecting great movements in the tectonic plates of politics and diplomacy, and his account of the sweep of a decade in which Britain ceased to be a great power is compelling.
The picture Mariner 9 painted of modern Mars was of a static desert, with none of the jostling of tectonic plates that makes life interesting for geologists by throwing up island chains and mountain ranges, and opening deep basins for oceans to form in.
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