Although rare on human timescales, over geologic time earthquakes are frequent in the area.

影响地质时期的大地震虽然在人类的历史中非常罕见，但该地区地震活动自古以来就非常频繁。

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Unfortunately, predicting the specific time, place, and size of particular large earthquakes is impossible at present, and is probably inherently impossible.

不幸的是，现在根本无法预测出特大地震的精确时间、地点和规模，而且似乎永远无法做到。

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Requests to the service specify a time range and a geographic coordinate range, and the service returns all earthquakes within the specified range.

服务请求指定时间范围和地理坐标范围，服务返回指定范围内的所有地震。

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The Apennines, the belt of mountains that runs down through the centre of Italy, is riddled with faults, and the "Eagle" city of L'Aquila has been hammered time and time again by earthquakes.

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This week is a school holiday in China, but the children were called in to make up for time lost as a result of earthquakes last month.

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So I waited for that special time in August when we have earthquakes and hurricanes and, knowing business would be slow, devoted myself to learning the latest phone.

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