For instance, by slamming into Asia, India has caused the rise of the Tibetan Plateau. But energy from this collision of plates has also been released all across mainland China. The 1976 earthquake at Tangshan in Hebei Province that caused 240,000 fatalities, for instance, was a result of this geologic movement. Fault lines are ruptures in the rock layers of the earth's crust caused by the collision of plates.
因此有所謂的大陸型地震，例如印度半島向北方持續擠壓青康藏高原，力量分散到中國大陸，位在內地的河北省終於爆發唐山大地震，至於碰撞造成的裂痕，也就是斷層。