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。

youdao

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。

youdao

The quake happened along a seam in the planet's surface where the Pacific Ocean floor is diving beneath the tectonic plate carrying northern Japan (see 'Collision zone').

这次地震是沿着地球表面的一条缝隙发生的。 在这条缝隙处，太平洋板块正俯冲入另一地壳板块下部，而这块地壳板块正承载着日本的北部地区（见”碰撞带“）。

youdao

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.

FORBES: Earthquakes, Maybe. But Is Los Angeles Prepared For A Tsunami?