Is the answer that, like a tall pine tree, the Japanese pagoda—with its massive trunk-like central pillar known as shinbashira—simply flexes and sways during a typhoon or earthquake?

答案会不会是这样：日本宝塔——由于有着一根叫做“塔心柱”的巨大树干状中心柱子——就像一棵高大的松树般，在一场台风或地震中仅仅只会来回摇摆和弯曲呢？

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For example, in the 1800s a monstrous earthquake changed the course of the Mississippi River, a large river flowing in the central part of the United States of America.

例如，在19世纪，一场大地震改变了密西西比河，一条流经美国中部的大河的流向。

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After the earthquake of Christchurch in New Zealand, New Zealand Central Bank cut interest rate by 50 basis points, while Japan's interest rate has been zero.

新西兰基督城地震过后，新西兰央行降息50个基点，但日本利率已经为零。

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The summit was moved from an island to the area in central Italy where a powerful earthquake struck just three months ago.

VOA: special.2009.07.11

Relief efforts were underway Tuesday, a day after a powerful earthquake struck central China, killing as many as 12, 000 people, officials said.

NPR: Earthquake Rocks China's Sichuan Province

Among them: ethnic clashes in West Java, a riot following an earthquake in central Sumatra, and an anti-pollution protest that led to riots in Pasaruan, East Java.

CNN: INDONESIA

Taipei's Apple Daily reports that a 72-year-old woman was crushed to death by a collapsed wall and 86 people were injured during the magnitude-6.1 earthquake in central Taiwan yesterday.

BBC: China media: Brics as 'global force'