This level I'm standing on right now used to be up there. 我现在所站的地方以前应是那个高度 That's a good two to two and a half, 那足有2米到2.5米的高度 possibly even three metres. 甚至可能有3米 So that entire free surfac...
Every time that Roger's machine 每一次 罗杰的仪器 measures the fault slipping, 测量断层的滑移 known as a creep event, 也被称作蠕变 this may help to calculate the amount of stress 可以帮助计算 在这座城市下面 that's bu...
I sometimes worry there's a snake under here. 我有时会担心下面有蛇 Not this time. 这次没有 There is an element of, er, 这有一点点 a Heath Robinson contraption about it. 像个荒谬的小发明 It's a very simple gadget, 它是个非...
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...