该系统迅速检测到印尼地震,两位研究者近期在向《地理物理研究快报》的报告中指出,系统在地震开始后8.5分钟自动检测到震后海啸威胁。
It then ran a series of checks, and after 16? minutes was completely certain that conditionswere right for a tsunami to form.
随后,系统启动了一系列检查程序,震后16.5分钟便完全确定海啸即将发生。
Since it took 35 minutes for the tsunami to come ashore, the system could, had it been usedto sound the alarm, have given people 18? minutes to flee.
因为海啸将在震后35分钟后到达,如果使用该系统发出警报,则为人们赢得了18.5分钟宝贵的逃生时间。
Unfortunately, it was not then attached to any sort of alarm that could let the Mentawaiislanders know that they were in danger.
不幸的是,该系统当时还未与警报系统结合,因此无法及时通知民大威群岛岛民海啸险情。
With luck, such a lack of warning will not happen again.
而幸运的是,缺乏警报机制的这种情况以后不会再有了。
By the summer the system should be hooked up to alarms around the world, and will be ableto determine tsunami risk within seven minutes of a shock being detected.
今年夏天之前,该系统将会与全世界警报系统相连接,并将会在检测到地震后7分钟内确定海啸发生的概率。
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