3月11日袭击日本东北部沿海的巨大地震与海啸破坏了核电站的冷却系统。
The huge earthquake and tsunami that ravaged Japan's north-eastern coast on March 11 knocked out the plant's cooling systems.
上周五（3月11日）袭击日本东北部的巨大地震使地球每日时长略有缩短，还改变了全球的品质分布。
The massive earthquake that struck northeast Japan Friday (March 11) has shortened the length of Earth's day by a fraction and shifted how the planet's mass is distributed.
“此次地震对我们是一次教训，”艾米尔欧卡尔说，他是伊利诺伊州伊万斯顿西北大学的一名地球物理学家，她的研究领域是巨大地震和巨大海啸。
"This earthquake is a lesson in humility," says Emile Okal, a geophysicist at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, who studies great earthquakes and tsunamis.
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