BACK in January, Japanese seismologists warned that the tectonic plates colliding beneath the Pacific Ocean off the North-East coast of Japan were poised to slip catastrophically.

早在今年一月的时候，日本地震学家就曾警告说太平洋洋底日本东北海岸下的板块相互冲撞会导致造成倾斜、引起灾难。

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In addition, both regions reside within the Ring of Fire, which is a zone surrounding the Pacific Ocean where the Pacific tectonic plate and other plates dive beneath other slabs of Earth.

此外，两个地区都驻留在火山圈内，那是环绕太平洋的一个区域。在那里太平洋地壳构造板块和其它板块潜于其它地球板块之下。

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Just off its coast is the Nazca plate, which rests below the south-eastern Pacific Ocean and slides beneath the South American tectonic plate by some 9 centimetres a year.

智利的海岸线外是纳斯卡板块，它位于太平洋的东南方下面，以每年9厘米的距离向南美板块下俯冲。

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In 1960, Piccard's father, Jacques, descended seven miles beneath the Pacific Ocean in another pressurized module to set a deep-dive record that has been matched only twice.

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Cameron became the first man to complete a solo dive to the Challenger Deep, which is seven miles beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean.

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This weekend, in addition to being the groundbreaking time when a national institution auctions off oversized goldfish, is also the time that we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Trieste descending to the bottom of Challenger Deep, the deepest point on earth 7 miles beneath the shiny waves of the Pacific Ocean.

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