It’s a pretty basic concept that doesn’t take much explaining but for whatever reason they elected to create an animation to illustrate what happened:
The actual news report follows – it’s a bit slow to load so if you want to save some time there’s screenshots at the bottom of this post that will give you the idea…
Screenshots (via Japan Probe):
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