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地震相关词汇： earthquake 地震shake 震动；摇晃tremor颤动；震动temblor [美语] 地震hit 袭击、打击，使遭受strike 突然发生；打击jolt 使颠簸，摇晃rock 摇，摇动，使振动roll across 波动，起伏，横摇rip through 裂开，破开；突进，横撞直闯damage 损害；损伤destroy 毁坏，破坏；摧残shatter 破坏；捣毁；破灭devastate 蹂躏，破坏；使荒废；毁灭level 推倒，夷平flatten 夷为平地seismological 地震学上的seismology 地震学seismograph 地震仪seismographer 地震学家aftershock 余震smaller tremors 小地震epicenter 震中magnitude 震级Richter Scale(1-10) 里氏震级earthquake monitoring 地震监控at a scale of 7.8 on the Richter calculations 里氏7.8级地震tsunami 海啸tsunami warning system 海啸预警系统natural disaster 自然灾害tragedy 灾难rock and mud slides 泥石流tidal waves 潮汐波，浪潮wreckage 残骸death toll 死亡人数survivors 幸存者victims 受灾者evacuation 撤离international contributions 国际援助rescue team 救援小组faults【地质】断层 crust表层, 【地质】地壳 rupture断裂  Ward off 截至29日，印尼海域发生的里氏9级地震和海啸中的遇难人数已近8万，红十字会预测最后的死亡人数将逾10万。印尼总统苏西洛指示全国对灾区实施救援，同时命令印尼军方派出通信、工程和卫生兵，使用大型工程机械清理灾区废墟，防止疫情和其他疾病的暴发流行。 外电报道如下：As the world scrambled to the rescue, survivors fought over packs of noodles in quake-stricken Indonesian streets Wednesday while relief supplies piled up at the airport for lack of cars, gas or passable roads to move them. The official death toll across 12 countries soared to near 77,000 and the Red Cross predicted it could pass 100,000.  Bodies were piled into mass graves in the belief that burial would ward off disease. Paramedics in southern India began vaccinating thousands of survivors against cholera, typhoid, hepatitis A and dysentery, and authorities sprayed bleaching powder on beaches where bodies have been recovered. In Sri Lanka, reports of waterborne disease such as diarrhea caused fears of an epidemic.  Ward off表示“防止，挡住，避开”，例如：ward off an assault（击退一次攻势）。　 Beef up 联合国官员日前称，南亚和东南亚地区将在一年内建立海啸预警系统，如果该系统在今年海啸灾难发生前已经存在，就可以挽救上万人的生命。专家认为，国家之间需要分享地震知识，并具备有效的国内通信网络，使政府得以快速将警报传递到有危险的地区，“问题主要不在技术系统，而在于通信网络……要让临海国家意识到这一点还有很多工作要做。” 外电报道如下：A tsunami warning system could be built in the Indian Ocean in just a year and cost as little as $20 million, a scientist said Tuesday.  Bu