As the Australian plate sinks, it melts, and some of the magma thus produced erupts violently to the surface.

当澳大利亚板块下沉时，引起部分板块消融，这使得一些地下的岩浆剧烈的喷发到地球表层。

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Pacific Compression forced nearly 60% of the continent underwater due to the Australian Plate being connected to the Indian Plate.

由于澳洲板块和印度板块相连了，太平洋的收缩迫使将近60%的澳洲大陆沈入海下。

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India and Bangladesh are of course affected by the pressure on the Indo-Australian Plate, which is being pushed under the high Himalayas.

印度和孟加拉国当然受到印澳板块蓄积的压力的影响并被挤压到高大的喜马拉雅山脉之下。

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As the Australian plate sinks, it melts, and some of the magma thus produced erupts violently to the surface.

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Another piece to the puzzle: Both of these earthquakes occurred along opposite ends of the same tectonic plate, the Australian 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