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Northern Japan jolted by 7.2-magnitude quakeAt least 45 people injured; two small tsunamis reported4:45 a.m. ET Aug. 16 2005━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━A powerful magnitude-7.2 earthquake struck northeastern Japan on Tuesday, injuring at least 45 people, causing power outages and snarling transportation. Skyscrapers shook as far away as Tokyo, 185 miles to the south, when the tremor struck at 11:46 a.m. Public broadcaster NHK said at least 22 of the 45 who were injured were hurt when the ceiling at an indoor swimming pool collapsed in Sendai, an industrial city of about one million.magnitude(n.):震级power outage:停电 outage是个可数名词 The power is off/gone.都可以表示停电snarling(ppl.):混乱的transportation(n.):交通运输skyscraper(n.):摩天大搂 高楼大厦tremor(n.):地震NHK(Nippon Hoso Kyokai):日本放送协会 日本广播电台[=Japan Broadcasting Corporation]ceiling(n.):天花板collapse(v.):倒塌Sendai(n.):仙台市━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━“There was a tremendous boom... People were screaming and headed toward the exit. It shook a lot... A lot of people were crying,” a young woman who was at the pool told NHK.Others in the quake zone were hurt by falling rocks and tumbling roof tiles. Several aftershocks followed the initial quake, the largest with a magnitude of 4.5, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.tremendous(adj.):巨大的 极大的boom(n.):隆隆声scream(v.):尖叫head toward:朝。。方向奔去tumbling(ppl.):倒塌的aftershock(n.):余震initial(adj.):起初的 最先的Japan Meteorological Agency:日本气象厅━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━The quake was centered 12 miles below the ocean floor about 50 miles off the coast of Miyagi in northeastern Japan, the Meteorological Agency said.Two tsunamis that were originally forecast to be 20 inches in height hit the coast with 4-inch waves; officials expected little damage. Tsunami waves are often barely noticeable in the ocean but can rise to great heights once they arrive at shore.ocean floor:海底Miyagi(n.):宫崎市tsunami(n.):海啸forecast(v.):预报 预测barely(adv.):仅仅noticeable(adj.):值得注意的 显而易见的height(n.):高度 海拔━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━From MSNBC [消息来源 美国 全国广播有线电视公司]
2005年08月16日 13点08分
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