Please tell me the mechanics of how the Pacific Ocean plate moves.

请你告诉我太平洋板块怎么运动的机制。

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Several studies indicate the descending Pacific Ocean plate and the overlying plate on which Japan sits, slipped past each other by up to 60 meters.

一些研究指出，下沉的太平洋板块和日本所处的位于上方的板块相互交错达60米。

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For example, given the current position of the Pacific Plate, Hawaii is above the Pacific Ocean hot spot.

比如，考虑到太平洋板块的当前位置，夏威夷位于太平洋热点之上。

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The Hawaiian Islands were created in the middle of the Pacific Ocean as the plate moved slowly over a hot spot.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

The volcanoes are strung across several thousand kilometres of ocean floor and are moving westward on the Pacific tectonic plate at up to 6cm per year.

BBC: Undersea mountains march into the abyss

The effects of the 2011 tsunami in Japan were felt across the Pacific Ocean to earthquake-prone California, which shares the same tectonic plate.

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