The Japanese archipelago is located on the so-called Pacific Rim of Fire, a large active volcanic and tectonic zone ringing North and South America, Asia and island arcs in Southeast Asia.

日本列岛坐落在“环太平洋火山带”上，这是一个环绕南北美洲、亚洲和东南亚列岛的火山活跃带和大地构造带。

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The discovery of this tectonic zone supports the view that the influence of the Paleo-Asiatic tectonic domain on the Northeast China microblock persisted till the Middle Jurassic.

该构造带的发现支持了古亚洲构造域对东北微陆块区的影响一直延续到中侏罗世的观点。

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In Mesozoic era, the formation and evolution of the Mesozoic Lanping Simao basin were controlled by the Tethys tectonic zone.

在中生代，该盆地的形成与演化受特提斯构造带的控制。

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Instead of occurring at a plate boundary along an area called a subduction zone, where one tectonic plate is diving beneath another, this earthquake occurred in the middle of an oceanic plate, where the faults in the crust essentially moved from side to side instead of up and down.

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