It's the line between two plates, the Nazca Plate, the South American plate here, the Nazca Plate here.

它是位于南美板块和纳斯卡板块两个板块之间。

This rift is the space between the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates.

这个裂谷是北美和欧亚板块之间的空间。

There's not like a Smithsonian Museum of the American license plate or anything like that.

没有美国车牌的史密森尼博物馆或类似的东西。

It sits on its own tiny plate, squeezed between the North American and Caribbean plates and surrounded on all sides by faults.

因为波多黎各坐落在自己的小板块上，挤在北美板块和加勒比板块中间，四周被断层包围。

But since the end of the Jurassic, the South American plate of that whole landmass had been moving westward.

但自侏罗纪末期以来，整个大陆的南美板块一直在向西移动。

You know, the unique thing about this place is that it sits right on the divide between the North American plate and the Pacific plate.

你看，这个地点的奇特之处就在于它恰好处于北美板块和太平洋板块的交界处。

The collision caused the edge of the Nazca plate to get pushed under the South American plate, in a process called subduction.

碰撞导致纳斯卡板块的边缘被推到南美板块下方，这个过程称为俯冲。

Part of California is on what is known as the Pacific plate. The other part of the state is on what is known as the North American plate.

加利福尼亚的一部分位于所谓的太平洋板块上。该州的另一部分位于所谓的北美板块上。