地震学家

Seismologist William Mccann and his colleagues have identified trouble spots in a remote region of Alaska on the boundary between the North American and Pacific at which there has been only minor activity to relieve pressure for 30 years more. In some cases, all movement has ceased and the tension is such that only the most violent activity can release it.

地震学家威廉·麦卡恩和他的同事们准确地测出了在北美板块和太平洋板块接界的阿拉斯加的一个边远地区，是地震活跃区。30多年来，这些交接处只有小规模的地壳活动在释放应力，有的地方甚至停止活动，因而应力很大，只有发生激烈的活动才能释放。

A Chinese seismologist on Wednesday refuted claims on the Internet that the authorities covered up predictions of the devastating southwest China earthquake to avoid panic ahead of the Beijing Olympic Games.

网上有人称为了避免北京奥运前的恐慌，中国官方曾掩盖对中国西南部毁灭性地震的预报，周三，一名中国的地震学家反驳了这一论断。

The other distinguishing factor to the quake was the firmness of the terrain in central China, which allowed seismic waves to travel large distances without losing their power, Tokyo University seismologist Teruyuki Kato said.

东经大学地震学家加藤照之说，与此次地震相关的另一个因素就是中原地区的坚硬地壳，这种地质能让震波能量毫不衰减地传播非常远的距离。

Lots of seismologists claimed that Coulomb stress change produced by earthquake can affect occurrence of subsequent rupture, but there are some violational earthquake examples.

很多地震学家声称地震产生的库仑破裂应力变化可以影响后续破裂的发生，然而也有一些与此相违背的震例存在。

Seismologists registered an ever increasing number of small earthquakes, fumaroles began to vent, and minor eruptions shot ash and steam out of its crater.

地震学家们发现小地震越来越多，喷气口开始活动，火山口不断有微小的火山灰和水蒸气喷发出来。

Imamura (Ref. 1 , p. 346), a well-known seismologist, wrote as follows in 1937:" attacked with every resource at their command the various problems bearing on earthquake prediction, such as earth tiltings and earth pulsations, variation in the elements of terrestrial magnetism, variation in underground temperatures, variation in latitude, secular variation in topography, etc., but satisfactory results were not obtained".

Imamura〔参考文献26第346页〕，著名的地震学家，1937年写道∶'［委员会］利用他们能够调动的一切资源对地震预测有关的所有问题进行研究，包括地倾斜、地跳、地磁因素的变化、地下温度的变化、纬度的变化、地形学方面长期，等，但是未能获得令人满意的结果。

A fault plane solution illustrates the direction of slip and the orientation of the fault during the earthquake.

答：除了确定地震的位置和等级，地震学家们现在也确定其中的&断层面&问题或&震源机制&。

Dr. Kerry Sieh, a veteran seismologist at the California Institute of Technology, has spent years studying some of the world's wealthiest and poorest earthquake-prone territory - not only the sickle-shaped scar of faults off Sumatra's west coast that caused last week's tsunami, but also California's San Andreas fault, which could, with a sudden twitch, submerge the inhabitants of some of the most valuable land on Earth.

一位加州理工学院的资深地震学家 Kerry Sieh 博士已经花了数年时间研究一些世界最富有和最贫穷的地震多发区，这些地方包括苏门答腊岛西海岸附近的镰刀状断层（它引起了上个星期的海啸），也包括加州的圣安德烈亚斯断层。伴随骤然颤动，这可能导致将地球上一些最珍贵的居民聚居地淹没。

U.S. Geological Survey seismologists subsequently found a strong link between the quakes and the refilling of the reservoir.

美国地质勘探局的地震学家其后发现这些地震活动和水库的重新满容有强关联性。

That is not to say that earthquakes do not have some 'preparatory phase', but rather that this phase might be not be consistently observable by geophysicists on the surface.

这并不是说地震没有一定的'准备阶段'，但是说这个阶段有可能不能由地震学家从地壳表面上始终能观察到。

As she looked at Warrington's manly face, and dark, melancholy eyes, she had settled in her mind that he must have been the victim of an unhappy attachment.

每逢看到沃林顿那刚毅的脸，那乌黑、忧郁的眼睛，她便会相信，他一定作过不幸的爱情的受害者。

Maybe they'll disappear into a pothole.

也许他们将在壶穴里消失