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。

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A city of central California in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada near Fresno. It is a processing center. Population, 50,323.

美国加利福尼亚州中部的一座城市，位于弗雷斯诺附近内华达山脉的山麓小丘中，是加工业中心。人口50,323。

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With a little luck and some mechanical help, a gold rush will explode next month in the Sierra Nevada foothills.

在地下金属探测器和一点点运气的帮助下，内华达山脉山脚下爆发了一股淘金热。

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They both arrived at Caltech in the early 1950s--Carver the freshman whiz kid from the Sierra foothills outside of Fresno, Feynman a young professor from Cornell.

FORBES: INCOMPARABLE CARVER

More than 150 years ago, in 1848, a man called James Marshall was supervising the construction of a sawmill in the Sierra foothills when he noticed something glitter in a riverbed.

ECONOMIST: Urban sprawl

Within a year, thousands of prospectors had arrived from the East and swarmed over every creek and river in the Sierra Nevada foothills.

FORBES: The Big Data Gold Rush