The South China Sea is a huge marginal sea at East-Asian continental margin, and a tectonic region of the transitional crust type from continental to oceanic.

南海是东亚大陆边缘的巨型陆缘海，属大陆—大洋过渡型地壳构造区。

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This is good news: it means tectonic stresses aren't building up in the region.

这是一个好消息：这意味着大地构造应力并没有在这一地区聚积。

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Nabro is part of the very active East African Rift, where three tectonic plates are pulling away from each other. As the Earth's crust thins in the region, volcanoes rise in weak spots.

纳布诺是位于三块板块交接的位置东非大裂谷活跃带的一部分，在此区域，地壳非常薄，位于薄弱点的火山喷发频繁。

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The Himalayas are fragile mountains formed from the tussle of tectonic plates that make the region seismically active.

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This tectonic shifts taking place in the region have altered the American role in the Middle East indefinitely, if not forever.

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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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