科学人士说，周二那场灾难性的地震（有 400 人在此次地震中丧生或失踪，市中心废墟一片）离克赖斯特彻奇如此之近，震源如此之浅，造成重大损失在所难免。

Tuesday's cataclysmic tremor, which left nearly 400 people dead or missing and the city center in ruins, was so close to the city of 390,000 and so shallow that major damage was inevitable, they said.

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