The most basic tool of seismologists is the seismograph network.
地震学家最基本的工具是地震仪网。
Seismologists say it is the biggest quake to hit the area in a century.
官员们说，为台风幸存者搭建的临时房屋在地震中倒塌。
Seismologists had said another such quake could strike the city any time.
地震学家说还会有这样的大地震随时袭击。
Seismologists from all over the world flooded to the seismic zones to help.
全球各地的地震学家涌到地震区协助。
Seismologists are now suggesting the Earth has entered an active seismic period.
有地震学家表明，地球已经进入了“地震活跃期”。
A popular saying among seismologists is that "earthquakes don't kill people, buildings do."
地震学家有句很流行的说法即：地震不伤人，伤人的是建筑。
Whether earthquakes can be predicted is a very difficult question for we seismologists to answer.
这个问题我们地震学家很难给出回答。
In fact, seismologists say, it is nearly impossible to predict when and where an earthquake will strike.
事实上，地震学家说，预测地震何时何地发生几乎是不可能的。
The paper also depicts some attempts made by Chinese seismologists in multi-approach earthquake predictions.
本文还介绍了中国地震学者在综合预报中所进行的某些尝试。
The severity of the September quake, along a fault line previously unknown to seismologists, had been a shock.
九月的地震的严重程度以及一条之前未被地震专家发现的断层线，都让人有些措不及防。
Given that history, seismologists in Japan did not consider great earthquakes to be a threat to the Sendai area.
基于这个历史记录，日本的地震学家过去并不认为仙台地区受到大地震的威胁。
A frequently cited time frame, by some of Japan's most senior seismologists, is between now and the next ten months.
日本一些资历最深的地质学家估计，这场地震发生的时间范围将是现在到未来10个月之间。
As if that were not enough, Japan's seismologists say there isa high risk of more big aftershocks in the coming days.
这还不够，日本的地震学家认为，未来几天发生多次大余震的风险较高。
The question now, she says, is whether seismologists can do anything with her research to try to predict the next big one.
她认为现在重要的是那些地震学家们是不是该做点什么，用她的研究尝试预报下一次大地震。
What seismologists can do is identify places where there is a high probability of a strong earthquake happening in the future.
地震学家所能做的，只是找出那些未来发生强震的可能性很大的地方。
In the past few decades, seismologists have discovered potentially serious fault lines everywhere from the Carolinas to Missouri.
在过去几十年中，地震学家发现在卡罗来纳到密苏里河之间的任何地方都是潜在的严重断层地带。
The phenomena have rattled seismologists for sometime, as the microquakes can often occur hours after the surface waves have past.
这种现象曾经让地震学家们感到很困惑，因为一般面波过去数小时之后微震才会发生。
Seismologists warn, however, that no one should wait for them to deliver more precise timing on when exactly these temblors will hit.
然而，地震学家警告说，人们不能只是等着地震学家来提供这些地震何时将会发生的精确时间(因为他们无法准确预测地震发生的时间)。
Seismologists know where faults are, and can assess earthquake risk, but predicting specific quakes ahead of time has been an elusive goal.
地震学家们知道断层在哪里，也能评估地震风险，但提前预报某次地震仍是一个难以达到的目标。
Seismologists have long concurred, saying the technology doesn't exist to predict a quake and that no major temblor has ever been foretold.
长时间以来地震学家们一致认为，以目前的科学技术，还不能预测地震，而且人类从未准确预知过任何一次大地震。
Seismologists tell us where not to build our houses, and meteorologists help us know where to sell sun cream and when to take an umbrella.
地震学家告诉我们哪里不适宜建造房屋，气象学家则帮助我们了解哪里防晒霜好卖，何时要带雨伞。
Seismologists theorize that the higher tide could cause an earthquake to occur just a few days or hours earlier than it would have at normal tide.
而地震学家也推理说较高的潮汐相对于正常的潮汐来说只是会让地震提前几天或者几小时发生而已。
The earthquake prediction method of using the water level data of hot and warmer water in artesian well have been approved by many seismologists.
利用深井高温承压自流井、温泉区自流井水位动态预报地震的方法，已经被国内外地震学家所重视。
"The idea that minor earthquakes release energy and thus make things better is a common misperception. But seismologists know it's not true," she says.
小地震释放能量因此把情况会变得更好的观点是一种普遍的误解，但地震学家知道这不是真的。
"The idea that minor earthquakes release energy and thus make things better is a common misperception. But seismologists know it's not true," she says.
小地震释放能量因此把情况会变得更好的观点是一种普遍的误解，但地震学家知道这不是真的。
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