俐媽指考新聞英文Part 3: Earthquake
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A strong earthquake jolted (震動) Taiwan on Sunday, killing two people and injuring at least 21 others and causing panicked (驚嚇的) shoppers to rush out of a shaking multi-story department store, officials said.
The tremor (震動) that hit Taiwan on Sunday afternoon was felt all over the island, but most severely in the central and southern regions. The magnitude (震級)-6.3 quake's epicenter (震央) was near Jenai township in Nantou County in central Taiwan, about 155 miles south of Taipei, the Central Weather Bureau said.
In Mountain Ali in the southern part of the island, a man was killed by a rockslide (落石) while driving a car on a mountain road. In all, 21 people were injured by the earthquake, many by fallen objects. Households elsewhere in central Taiwan reported cracks (裂痕) on walls or ceilings falling, the reports said.
Earthquakes frequently rattle (使搖動) Taiwan, but most are minor and cause little or no damage. Nantou is near the epicenter of a magnitude-7.6 earthquake that struck ([災難]發生) Taiwan in 1999 and killed more than 2,300 people.
(http://www.claimsjournal.com/…/intern…/2013/06/03/230038.htm)
Other key words:
aftershock 餘震
Earthquake Rapid Reporting System 地震速報系統
blind fault 盲斷層
focal mechanism 震源機制
foreshock 前震
hypocenter 震源
mainshock 主震
plate tectonics 板塊運動
Richter magnitude 芮氏規模
seismic belt 地震帶
seismograph 地震儀
seismology 地震學
seismologist 地震學家
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