However, plate tectonics cannot fully explain certain massive surface features, such as the "superswell" of southern Africa, a vast plateau over 1,000 miles across and nearly a mile high.

然而，板块构造不能完全解释某些巨大的地表特征，例如非洲南部的“superswell”，即一个直径超过1000英里、高度接近1英里的巨大高原。

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Likewise, houses with big openings, such as plate-glass Windows or large garage doors, fare worse than ones without those features.

同样，与外界连通较大的房子，比如有平板玻璃窗或者车库门的，抗灾能力会相对较差。

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The sinking of the Sunda Plate is to the point where coastal cities such as Jakarta, Manila and Bangkok are in the news with intractable flooding problems.

巽他板块的下沉已经达到了例如雅加达，马尼拉和曼谷这样的沿海城市的新闻报道了棘手的洪水问题的程度。

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This effect might be enhanced in plates without a very rigid continental plate, such as Central America as opposed to the Cascades.

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"The problems associated with dementia in relation to eating and drinking result in food being 'chased' around normal plates and the options that are available are quite childlike, such as plate guards and split plates, " she said.

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