2017新托福听力解析:美国地震

2017新托福听力解析:美国地震

　　To be honest with you, I didn’t feel a thing. But many other Scientific American staffers felt the shaking a few minutes before 2 P.M. Eastern time. After checking Twitter and other sources to discover what had happened, a lot of the crew ran to their desks to begin covering the East Coast earthquake of 2011. You can find their stories and photos on our website.

　　And you can help researchers learn more about the quake. If you were in any of the affected areas—from Georgia to Toronto and west to

　　Ohio—go to the website of the United States Geological Survey, the USGS. Go to their earthquake page, earthquake.usgs.gov. There you’ll see an item called Did You Feel It?, where you can share your location and your estimate of the strength of the shaking. If, like me, you didn’t feel anything, enter that too—it’s all valuable.

　　Your info will help create a Community Internet Intensity Map that can provide important data about the scope of the quake and contribute to ongoing earthquake research. That’s earthquake.usgs.gov

　　—Steve Mirsky

　　说实话，我连发生了什么事情都不知道。但是美国很多从事科研行业的职员都在东部时间下午两点之前的几分钟感觉到了震动。查阅了推特和其他网站资源来搜索究竟发生了什么事后，许多船员跑向他们各自的岗位去支援2011东海岸地震。你可以在我们的网站上找到他们的故事和照片。

　　并且，你可以帮助这些研究人员来了解更多有关这次地震的情况。如果你是地震受影响到任何一个区域的一员--从格鲁吉亚到多伦多并且向西到俄亥俄州--那么你可以去美国地质勘探局的网站浏览一下，点击有关地震的页面，earthquake.usgs.gov。在那里你会看到一篇名为“你感觉到了吗?”的文章，你可以将你的地理位置，对于至此地震发生后你对人心力量的评估等等分享给大家。如果，你跟我一样也浑然不知发生了什么事，那你也点击那个页面，因为，这是很有价值的。

　　你的信息将有助于创建一个社区因特网强度地图系统，为地震的范围提供重要信息并且为进行中的地震调查做出贡献。