周五的演习假设加州亨廷顿海滩发生大地震，引发海啸与原油泄漏。
Friday's fictional scenario starts with a major earthquake off the coast of Huntington Beach, California, generating a tidal wave and an oil spill.
但是，更为主要的原因是，新的研究表明一场超过人们预期的大地震将很有可能在加州发生，而且比之前人们认为的破坏力要大。
But the main reason is new research suggesting that a huge quake in California is probably more overdue, and will be more devastating, than previously thought.
在南加州，水是一件大事，需求一直在持续上涨，而相关专家担心一场大地震可能会引发饮用水短缺的危险。
Water is a big deal in Southern California, where demand for it continues to climb, and experts fear a major earthquake could trigger a dangerous shortage of drinking water.
“仙台曾经发生过地震，但是却没有发生过强烈大地震，”麻布金森说，他是美国帕萨迪纳加州理工学院的地震学家。
"There has been seismicity but not really great-earthquake seismicity," says Hiroo Kanamori, a seismologist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
接下来会发生的事件：据说这首四行诗预言了大地震(倾斜的公园，巨大的灾难)。在新世界(西方大地)，加州是符合逻辑的选择。
What's supposed to happen: a great earthquake (sloping park, great calamity) is reputedly foretold in this quatrain. In the New World (he Lands of the West), California is the logical choice.
不妨想象一下，要是加州也来了一场大地震，我们会期望墨西哥来的人们对我们说‘噢，你们没办法照顾你们的孩子了，最好由我们替你们接管吧’之类的话吗？
Imagine a big earthquake strikes California. Would we want people from Mexico saying, "Oh, you can't care for your children-we'd better take them off your hands"?
加州海岸在过去也遭受过海啸的袭击，最严重的一次发生在1964年阿拉斯加9.2级大地震中。
The California coast has experienced tunamis in the past, the worst from the 1964 "Good Friday" earthquake in Alaska that measured 9.2 on the Richter scale.
震动图的产出是自动的；通过在南加州的重大地震来触发。
Production of the maps is automatic, triggered by any significant earthquake in southern California.
这条断层自北向南纵贯加州。上一次大地震发生在1906年，震中靠近旧金山，数千人死亡。
The fault runs north to south through the state, and thousands died in its last major rupture near San Francisco in 1906.
事实上，我现在十分焦虑，我老是担心近期内南加州可能发生的一场大地震。
In fact, my concern level is the highest; it has ever been for a major earthquake in Southern California in the near future.
事实上，我现在十分焦虑，我老是担心近期内南加州可能发生的一场大地震。
In fact, my concern level is the highest; it has ever been for a major earthquake in Southern California in the near future.
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