日本拥有世界最好的早期预警系统.pptVIP

A powerful earthquake struck the northeastern coast of Japan at two forty-six p.m. local time on March eleventh. 当地时间3月11日下午2:46，强震袭击了日本东北部海岸。 Japan‘s Meteorological Agency released its first tsunami warnings just three minutes later. 。 日本气象厅(Meteorological Agency)三分钟后发布了首次海啸预警。 The country has one of the best earthquake early warning systems in the world. 日本拥有世界上最好的地震早期预警系统。 There are more than four thousand Seismic Intensity Meters in place throughout Japan to measure earthquake activity. 日本全国各地拥有4,000多个地震强度测定仪来测量地震活动。 These meters provide information within two minutes of an earthquake happening. 这些仪器在地震发生两分钟之内就会提供相关信息。 Information about the strength and the center of the earthquake can be learned within three minutes. 关于地震强度和地震中心的信息三分钟之内就可获取。 There are also concrete sea walls around much of the Japanese coastline. But these measures proved no match for the powerful earthquake and tsunami. 日本海岸线沿岸大部分都有混凝土防波堤。但是面对这次强大的地震和海啸，这些措施起不到丝毫作用。 Costas Synolakis is a tsunami expert with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Costas Synolakis是洛杉矶南加州大学土木与环境工程(Civil and Environmental Engineering)系的海啸专家。 COSTAS SYNOLAKIS: Japan is one of those most well-prepared countries on earth in terms of tsunami warning. Costas Synolakis：“在海啸预警方面，日本是世界上准备最充分的国家之一。 They had a warning. I think what went wrong is that they had not anticipated the size of this event.“ 他们有预警系统。我认为，失误的一点就是没有预料到这次事故的强度。” He says there are two reasons for this. Japan has not had any event anywhere near as big as this one in the last one hundred fifty years. 他表示，关于这一点有两个原因。日本过去150年之内并没有遭遇过如此严重的灾难。 And scientists had not expected such a large earthquake happening off the coast of Japan. 科学家并没有预料到日本海岸线附近会发生如此强大的地震。 The nine point zero magnitude earthquake was the fourth most powerful earthquake ever recorded worldwide. 日本这次发生的9.0级的地震是全世界范围内有记录的第四大地震， It was also the worst earthquake ever to hit Japan. The tsunami waves that followe