This estimation relied on seismological techniques measuring the first seismic waves recorded, a method that lends itself to underestimation when a quake exceeds a magnitude of 8.5.

这项估算的依据是用地震技术测量记录到的第一批地震波，这种方法在地震超过8.5级时会造成估算不足。

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The problem was obviously in my overestimation of my navigation skills, and my underestimation of the size of the park!

问题其实出在我太高估自己的实力，也太低估这座公园的大小啦！

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The symbol of the maturity of art, does not lie in innovative technologies and astonishing ideas, nor in the familiarity with past and the underestimation of the existing arts.

艺术上成熟的标志，往往不在于技术的新颖与理念的惊世，更不在于对过往的娴熟与对现存的小觑。

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Over confidence in safeguards, and underestimation of what can go wrong, like with natural disasters.

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As for Japan, the inattention of the world has led to underestimation of a different danger.

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But if she deserves credit for this, she deserves blame for a comparable failure: America's early underestimation of Boris Yeltsin.

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