The Indonesian archipelago has dozens of active volcanoes and straddles major tectonic fault lines known as the "Ring of Fire" between the Pacific and Indian oceans.

印度尼西亚群岛有很多活火山，横跨于地质构造断层带，也是太平洋和印度洋之间的火山带。

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Japan's prime minister, Naoto Kan, demanded a temporary shutdown of the power plant at Hamaoka, an ageing facility near a tectonic fault line.

日本首相菅直人要求暂时关闭滨岗核电站，这座老旧的核电站位于一地壳断层附近。

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Tehran sits where two tectonic plates clash and is criss-crossed by fault lines.

德黑兰地处两大板块交接，断层线交叉地。

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It is along or near this fault line that most of California's earthquakes take place, as the two tectonic plates move in different directions.

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Roger Bilham, a geophysicist at the University of Colorado, says the latest quake may have released only a tenth of the pent-up energy that has accumulated along the region's fault lines due to tectonic shifts.

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