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英语演讲稿：希拉里在上海世博会美国馆的讲话.txt男人偷腥时的智商仅次于爱因斯坦。美丽让男人停下，智慧让男人留下。任何东西都不能以健康做交换。Japan earthquake: what causes them? Earthquakes are triggered by the tectonic plates that make up the earths surface snagging, breaking or bending as they move past each other. Tokyo is situated on Japans main Honshu island which is turn sits at the intersection of three continental plates, the Eurasian, Pacific and Philippine Sea plates, which are slowly grinding against each other, building up enormous seismic pressure that every so often is realised with ferocious force. Volcanoes and oceanic trenches around the Pacific Basin which holds Japan have earned the area the name The Ring of Fire. Japan accounts for about 20 per cent of the worlds earthquakes of magnitude six or greater and on average, an earthquake occurs there every five minutes. When earthquakes occur under the sea floor, they unleash tsunamis which are often more devastating than the quake itself. Tsunamis, from the Japanese word for harbour and wave, are vast quantities of water displaced by the violent movement of the earths crust. This water moves as waves, able to travel vast distances at high speeds, sweeping over landmasses and demolishing everything in their path. Several factors determine the height and destructiveness of a tsunami. They include the size of the quake, the volume of displaced water, the topography of the sea floor as the waves race to the coast and whether there are natural obstacles that dampen the shock. Destruction of protective mangroves and coral reefs and the building of homes or hotels on exposed beaches are blamed as leading causes of high death tolls from tsunamis. Kevin McCue, a seismologist at CQUniversity in Queensland, Australia, said that although the death toll was likely to be high, the quakes distance from Tokyo, the worlds most populous city, was a blessing. In 1923 in the great Kanto earthquake which measured 7.9, 147,000 people died so our expectation is tha