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American's golden state
加州號稱美國的黃金之州
lives in the constant shadow of an enormous earthquake,
卻始終籠罩在大地震的陰影之下
and because of this they throw more money
也正因為此 他們在地震研究上
into studying these disasters than anywhere else.
投入的資金 比其他任何地方都多
At the heart of this effort
這項研究的核心機構(gòu)
is the United States Geological Survey,
是美國地質(zhì)勘探局
the nerve centre of earthquake monitoring.
地震監(jiān)測的中樞機構(gòu)
This is a map showing
這幅地圖顯示了
the global earthquakes of the last week
上周以來全球發(fā)生的地震
Any time you look at this picture
無論何時看這張地圖
there's going to be aspects of it
大致情況都會
that are gonna look a lot like this.
跟這十分相近
You're gonna see this distribution down California
你會看到加州這里分布[特別密集]
because this map is showing
因為這張地圖上標(biāo)出了
smaller magnitude earthquakes in California.
加州發(fā)生的較小震級的地震
We are running our own networks here
加州這里有自己專門的監(jiān)測臺網(wǎng)
The red shows that we've just had an earthquake,
紅色表示剛剛有地震發(fā)生
this is at the Northern end of Japan.
地震位于日本的北端
There's usually something in Japan every week
一般日本每周都會發(fā)生
that's large enough to show up here.
強到足以在這顯示出來的地震
The South Pacific is one of the
南太平洋地區(qū)是目前
active areas of the world right now.
活躍的地震帶之一
You'll see a few things spread around,
還可以看到這些分散分布點
somewhere through Asia essentially all the time.
亞洲的這帶區(qū)域 總是有地震發(fā)生
For seismologists like Lucy Jones,
對于像露西·瓊斯的地震學(xué)者來說
it's no longer a mystery
地震為何如此頻繁
why the earth suffers so many quakes.
已不再是個謎了
