常见地震术语与翻译

常见地震术语英译

震中:epicenter;earthquake epicenter

震源:earthquake focus

震级:magnitude; earthquake magnitude; seismic（<地>地震的）magnitude

震区:earthquake region

地震带:seismic belt; earthquake zone

地震烈度、地震强度:seismic intensity; earthquake intensity

余震:aftershock

震觉:seismaesthesia

震情:seismic regime

地震仪:seismographA massive 8.8 magnitude quake hit the northeast coast of Japan on Friday, shaking buildings in the capital Tokyo, causing "many injuries", at least one fire and triggering a four-metre (13-ft) tsunami, NHK television and witnesses reported.

There was also a warning of a 10-metre tsunami following the quake, Japan's biggest in 7 years.

The public broadcaster showed flames and black smoke billowing from a building in Odaiba, a Tokyo suburb, and bullet trains to the north of the country were halted.

Black smoke was also pouring out of an industrial area in Yokohama's Isogo area.

TV footage showed boats, cars and trucks floating in water after a tsunami hit the town of Kamaichi in northern Japan.