By mapping out California's faults, 通过绘制加利福利亚的断层 scientists are beginning to understand 科学家们开始明白 how tiny slips in one place 一个地方的微小滑动 could lead to huge earthquakes somewhere else. 是怎么能...
There are not a whole lot of earthquakes in London, you know 伦敦没有经历过多少地震 and the ones that happen are piddly and not worth studying. 发生的也都是些小地震 没有研究价值 So in my game where you need major things, 所以...
Even though Mike is hundreds of kilometres 虽然麦克身处的中国四川 from the tectonic plate boundary between India and Asia, 离印度亚洲版块交界处几百公里之远 this is major earthquake country. 这里仍是个地震多发国家...
Months on, and Sichuan still lies in ruins, 数月过去 四川仍是一片废墟 but Mike hopes to find answers 而麦克希望找到埋藏于 among the broken houses and upturned soil. 废墟和隆起的土地之下的答案 He'll be travelling wit...
Six months after the disaster, 灾难过去6个月后 geologist Mike Ellis is travelling to China 地质学家麦克艾利斯远赴中国 to investigate the earthquake. 来调查这次地震 Mike has worked in this region before 麦克以前曾在这一...
One possibility is that earthquakes are different. 有一种可能是不同次地震是不一样的 In '66 there was quite a large foreshock 66年那次的前震很剧烈 and in '34 there was quite a large foreshock 而34年地震也有大规模前震...
Our guess was basically, what you'd call... 我们的预测基本上 怎么说呢... um, ambitious or optimistic. 太大胆或者太乐观了 It wasn't until September 28th 2004 直到2004年9月28日 that the earthquake finally struck, 地震终于来...
This ranch house is the high-tech outpost 这座小屋就是美国美国地质勘探局的 for a team of scientists from the US Geological Survey. 科学家们的一座高科技监测站 Every morning they check sophisticated sensors, 他们每天早上...
They came to town and they set up shop with instruments, 他们来到镇上 设立起工作室设置好设备 and they're sort of hidden away and tucked away 他们算是隐居其中 so they're not that obvious 所以并不显眼 but there's a lot of...
This is Parkfield, 这里是帕克菲尔德 a tiny hamlet in the middle of California. 加州中部的一个小村落 Few people ever come here, and even fewer stay. 人迹罕至 居民更是少之又少 But this village lies on 但是这座村庄位于...