2017新托福聽力解析:美國地震

　　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

　　說實話，我連發(fā)生了什么事情都不知道。但是美國很多從事科研行業(yè)的職員都在東部時間下午兩點之前的幾分鐘感覺到了震動。查閱了推特和其他網(wǎng)站資源來搜索究竟發(fā)生了什么事后，許多船員跑向他們各自的崗位去支援2011東海岸地震。你可以在我們的網(wǎng)站上找到他們的故事和照片。

　　并且，你可以幫助這些研究人員來了解更多有關(guān)這次地震的情況。如果你是地震受影響到任何一個區(qū)域的一員--從格魯吉亞到多倫多并且向西到俄亥俄州--那么你可以去美國地質(zhì)勘探局的網(wǎng)站瀏覽一下，點擊有關(guān)地震的頁面，earthquake.usgs.gov。在那里你會看到一篇名為“你感覺到了嗎?”的文章，你可以將你的地理位置，對于至此地震發(fā)生后你對人心力量的評估等等分享給大家。如果，你跟我一樣也渾然不知發(fā)生了什么事，那你也點擊那個頁面，因為，這是很有價值的。

　　你的信息將有助于創(chuàng)建一個社區(qū)因特網(wǎng)強(qiáng)度地圖系統(tǒng)，為地震的范圍提供重要信息并且為進(jìn)行中的地震調(diào)查做出貢獻(xiàn)。