Nepal's devastating earthquake was the disaster experts knew was coming.
尼泊尔遭遇的此次毁灭性地震是在地震专家预料之中。
Just a week ago, about 50 earthquake and social scientists from around the world came to Kathmandu, Nepal, to figure out how to get this poor, congested, overdeveloped, shoddily built area to prepare better for the big one, a repeat of the 1934 temblor that leveled this city. They knew they were racing the clock, but they didn't know when what they feared would strike.
仅在一周前,来自世界各地的约五十名地震学家和社会学家来到尼泊尔首都加德满都讨论,如果1934年那场将这座城市夷为平地的大地震再次上演,如何才能让这个贫穷、拥挤、过度开发且建筑粗制滥造的地区更妥善地做好准备。专家们知道自己在和时间赛跑,但他们不知道令人担忧的情况何时会出现。
"It was sort of a nightmare waiting to happen," said seismologist James Jackson, head of the earth sciences department at the University of Cambridge in England. "Physically and geologically what happened is exactly what we thought would happen."
“有点像迟早会成真的噩梦,英国剑桥大学地球科学系主任、地震学家詹姆斯•杰克逊(James Jackson)说,“从物理学和地质学的角度来说,发生的事情完全在我们的预料之中。
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