地震捕手网络远没有这么敏感。
科克伦和她的同事正尝试将地震捕手的参入人数增加到1万人。
Cochran and her colleagues are trying to push the Quake Catchers' membership toward 10, 000.
他们梦想地震捕手能够覆盖整个加州以及更远的地方。
这也是为什么科克伦认为扩大地震捕手网络如此重要的另一个原因。
That's another reason why Cochran thinks expanding the Quake Catchers Network is so important.
在离开之前,科克伦在教室角落里的电脑上安装了一个传感器和地震捕手软件。
Before she left, Cochran installed a sensor and the Quake Catcher program on a computer in the corner of the classroom.
科克伦现在成了半科学家半推销员,因为她在整个加州间穿梭游走,以劝说人们成为地震捕手。
Cochran is part scientist and part saleswoman as she crisscrosses the state to persuade people to become Quake Catchers.
不过,那天早晨真正具有明星吸引力的是科克伦银色的苹果笔记本电脑,电脑里配备了地震捕手软件。
But the star attraction of the morning was Cochran's silver MacBook, equipped with the Quake Catcher program.
出于私人原因,地震捕手软件不对参入的个人进行识别,同时捕获的数据只提供地点信息而不提供参入者的姓名。
For privacy reasons, the program does not identify individual participants, and the data capture gives places but not names.
于是舍斯基邀请科克伦和她的团队来学校,因为她认为参入地震捕手网络将会为她们提供对地震如何发生这一问题的真正理解。
Sheskey invited Cochran and her team because she thought getting involved in the quake Catcher Network would give them a real understanding of how earthquakes happened.
在发生巨大地震的情况下,地震捕手网络可能能够为震中(epicenter)附近的地区提供几秒钟的预警时间。
In the event of a huge quake, the network could potentially give areas miles away from the epicenter a few seconds of warning.
罗斯福斯在地震捕手的在线布告栏里张贴他的电脑屏幕截屏图片,就像一位自豪的爸爸一样(将地震捕手网络比喻成儿子)。
Rothfuss posted screen shots on the Quake Catchers' online bulletin boards like a proud papa.
但是在他和他的妻子马尼亚·皮尔斯(Manya Pierce)加入地震捕手网络后不久,发现约巴林达处在一群小地震带中心。
But soon after he and his wife, Manya Pierce, joined the network, Yorba Linda was at the center of a swarm of small earthquakes.
中亚国家(CentralAsian nation)吉尔吉斯斯坦(Kyrgyzstan)和塔吉克斯坦(Tajikistan)也有一些地震捕手——这些地方“很难安装传统的地震检波器。”
There are a few Quake Catchers in the Central Asian nations Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan -- places where "it would be pretty difficult to install a [traditional] seismometer."
中亚国家(CentralAsian nation)吉尔吉斯斯坦(Kyrgyzstan)和塔吉克斯坦(Tajikistan)也有一些地震捕手——这些地方“很难安装传统的地震检波器。”
There are a few Quake Catchers in the Central Asian nations Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan -- places where "it would be pretty difficult to install a [traditional] seismometer."
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