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.

新西兰地处太平洋火山带南端，且位于印度-澳大利亚板块和太平洋板块交界处，属于地震多发国。

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But it is the Indo-Australian plate that gives way to incite change in these other plates and this is what is manifesting now to those closely following the changes.

但这是印澳板块造成的其他板块的改变而这正是现在紧随这些变化的展现。

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The earthquake happened along a line where the Earth's Indo-Australian and Eurasian tectonic plates grind together, in the waters west of Sumatra.

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Bantul is only 200km (125 miles) north of one of the world's most active fault lines, where the Indo-Australian and the Eurasian plates meet.

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