Thirteen temblors of magnitude 7 or larger have hit Chile since 1973.
自1973年以来，智利共发生了13次里氏7级或更高级别的地震。
Since 1973, 13 temblors of magnitude 7.0 or greater have occurred there, according to the USGS.
据美国地质勘探局说，自1973年以来，那里发生了13次7.0级或以上地震。
All of Iran lies within a major earthquake zone, and the country has suffered terrible temblors before.
整个伊朗地处一个主要地震带，也经历过多次地震袭击。
The U.S. Geological Survey said it recorded a 6.9 magnitude quake in southern Qinghai followed by two other temblors in the region.
美国地质调查局(U.S.Geological Survey)称记录到青海南部发生6.9级地震，随后该地区又发生两次余震。
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)。
Shock waves from a quake move quickly through the ground, but electronic signals are far faster, allowing warnings to outrun temblors.
地震产生的冲击波在地面上迅速移动，不过电信号传递地更快，这使得预警信号能够超过地震波而传递到当地的民众那里。
Smaller temblors that usually occur in the days following a large earthquake can complicate rescue efforts and cause further death and destruction.
小型地震经常在大地震发生时连续几天发生，会加重救援困难，并且产生进一步的死亡和破坏。
Indonesia, a region that has been hit repeatedly by massive temblors, most recently a 7.6 earthquake in September that killed more than 1, 000people.
印尼是一个反复遭受地震袭击的地方，最近的一次是在九月份，震级7.6，一千多人丧生。
Indonesia, a region that has been hit repeatedly by massive temblors, most recently a 7.6 earthquake in September that killed more than 1,000 people.
印尼是一个反复遭受地震袭击的地方，最近的一次是在九月份，震级7.6，一千多人丧生。
Indonesia, a region that has been hit repeatedly by massive temblors, most recently a 7.6 earthquake in September that killed more than 1,000people.
印尼是一个反复遭受地震袭击的地方，最近的一次是在九月份，震级7.6，一千多人丧生。
Indonesia, a region that has been hit repeatedly by massive temblors, most recently a 7.6 earthquake in September that killed more than 1, 000 people.
印尼是一个反复遭受地震袭击的地方，最近的一次是在九月份，震级7.6，一千多人丧生。
Rapid erosion from the Mississippi River at the end of the last ice age reduced forces that had kept the New Madrid fault from slipping and triggered the temblors.
最后一个冰河时代末期密西西比河的急剧侵蚀减弱了保持新马德里断层稳定的防滑力，从而引发地震。
Wednesday's temblors triggered local tsunami alerts along the coasts of the Bio Bio and Maule regions, the two hardest hit by Saturday's quake and an ensuing tsunami.
由于周三的余震，比奥比奥与马乌莱地区海岸发出了当地海啸警报。这是在上周六地震及其引发的海啸当中受损最严重的两个地区。
In Japan and Chile, where earthquakes have caused untold damage in the past, hospitals are now built using "base isolation" techniques to absorb the shocks caused by temblors.
日本和智利两国过去曾发生过地震并造成了不可计量的损失，目前两国的医院都是利用“基础隔震”技术进行建设，隔震层可以吸收由于地震带来的地动影响。
Yet in December of 1811, a pair of massive magnitude 7.2+ temblors ripped through the Mississippi River Valley near the corners of Missouri, Kentucky, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Illinois.
但在1811年12月，两次超过7.2级的大地震撕裂了临近密苏里州、肯塔基州、阿肯色州、田纳西州和伊利诺斯州交界处的密西西比河河谷。
Earthquakes, also called temblors, can be so tremendously destructive, it's hard to imagine they occur by the thousands every day around the world, usually in the form of small tremors.
地震，(美语中又叫做temblor)具有极强的毁灭性，即使是小幅度的震颤，一天给你发生个上千次的话，后果也是不堪设想。
Many scientists believe this link between temblors and dams—called reservoir-induced seismicity—may have been what happened at California's Oroville Dam, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada.
很多科学家都认为地震和大坝之间是有联系的，他们称其为“水库引发地震”，这种地震已在位于美国内华达山脉山麓下的加利福尼亚州奥罗维尔坝附近发生过。
The massive earthquake that shook Japan yesterday, creating a destructive tsunami, is the latest in a series of especially fierce temblors since 2004 - after four decades without such large quakes.
昨天发生在日本的大规模地震造成了破坏性的海啸，这是自2004年以来的一系列剧烈地震中的最新一次——此前四十年都没有如此剧烈的地震。
The massive earthquake that shook Japan yesterday, creating a destructive tsunami, is the latest in a series of especially fierce temblors since 2004 - after four decades without such large quakes.
昨天发生在日本的大规模地震造成了破坏性的海啸，这是自2004年以来的一系列剧烈地震中的最新一次——此前四十年都没有如此剧烈的地震。
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