卡斯卡迪亚地震带足够大，可以与圣安地列斯（它被称为美国最危险的断层）相媲美，但它的知名度远不及它在加州的表亲。
The Cascadia Earthquake Zone is big enough to compete with San Andreas (it's been called the most dangerous fault in America), but it's much lesser known than its California cousin.
南卡罗来纳的查尔斯顿附近、马萨诸塞的波士顿以及密苏里的新马德里都曾发生过破坏性地震。 幸好美国在地震发生率最高的阿拉斯加州并没有设立核电站。
Damaging earthquakes have occurred near Charleston, South Carolina; Boston, Massachusetts; and New Madrid, Missouri.
“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.
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