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Seismology and tsunamis 地震学与海啸 Making waves 掀起新浪潮 A better tsunami-prediction system is now underdevelopment 更精准的海啸预测系统现已在开发中 Next time, they might see it coming 下次海啸来袭时，人们可提前准备 GEOLOGISTS have long known that some marine earthquakes generate fierce tsunamis andsome do not. 地质学家们早已知道有的海洋地震会引起强烈海啸，而有的则不会。 But, as the situation in Japan makes painfully clear, there is no good way for people beingtossed around by a tremor to know the difference until a wave arrives. 但是，日本的惨痛教训告诉我们，被地震震得惊慌失控的人们根本意识不到一场海啸即将到来。 A new earthquake-monitoringsystem developed by Andrew Newman and Jaime Convers at the Georgia Institute ofTechnology may, however, help to change that. 而现在，由乔治亚理工学院的安德鲁?纽曼与亚伊梅?康弗斯共同研发的最新地震监测系统有望改变现状。 During an earthquake, the Earth s crust is uplifted. 地震时，地壳板块隆升。 | 
