Except for landslides, which in this case are a serious problem, "it's buildings that kill people not earthquakes," Jackson said.

除了山体滑坡，在这种情况下，这会是一个很严重的问题。“地震中杀死人的是建筑，而不是地震本身，”他说。

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Near the surface earthquakes may run as high as 100 in a month, but the yearly average does not vary much.

近地表的地震频率可能高达一个月100次，但每年的平均值变化不大。

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The highway was not built according to today's strict standards to resist earthquakes.

这条高速公路没有按照如今抗震的严格标准来建造。

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Geophysicist Julie Dutton says she expects the damage to be severe, in part because many buildings are not designed to withstand earthquakes.

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(OMITTED) He says earthquakes are natural events, but if homes were built properly, the L'Aquila quake would not have been so devastating.

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Might not earthquakes simply be too expensive, and too mercifully infrequent, a problem to be worth poor countries doing very much about?

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Indeed, post-Fukushima inspections have confirmed that some of the equipment at many plants would not survive earthquakes or floods.

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His program of a new architectural outline for San Francisco, one that would not resist earthquakes but use their destructive energy to create new kinds of structures, sounds marvelous.

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