voa标准英语2008年-Australia Sets Up New Tsunami Warning System
时间：2019-01-13 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2008年(十一月)
The Australian tsunami warning system is part of what officials hope will be a network of centers across the Indian Ocean that share scientific data.
Indonesia, which was badly hit by the Indian Ocean tsunami four years ago, is expected to have its own early warning mechanism 3 working by the end of the year.
Baan Nam Khem, Khao Lak Phang Nga Province, Southern Thailand - hardest hit from Dec 26 tsunami
The Australian project is based in the southern city of Melbourne and relies on high technology deep sea buoys 4. Five are in waters northwest of Australia, while others are off the continent's east coast in the Coral Sea. Additional buoys are further south in the Tasman Sea.
Barry Drummond from the government's Geoscience office says the new system will provide accurate information about the risks of giant waves.
"Rather than saying a tsunami is on its way and it may impact the coastline of whichever state, the center is now in a position to be able to say, along that coastline these areas are more susceptible 5 than those and in these areas the threat will be to things in the water; swimmers, boats, harbors and that sort of things and within these other areas the tsunami may come ashore 6 and then these are the areas that you have to worry about," explained Drummond. "So far more detail. It allows us not to over-warn and ensures we don't under-warn."
The sensitive monitoring equipment allows scientists to pinpoint 7 the location of an earthquake that could trigger a tsunami, its depth and strength.
Tidal waves wash through houses at Maddampegama, about 60 kilometers south of Colombo, Sri Lanka
The Australian system also will provide sea level and seismic 8 data to vulnerable island nations in the Pacific Ocean and also to authorities in Japan.
The epicenter of the undersea earthquake that triggered the December 26, 2004, Indian Ocean tsunami occurred off the west coast of Sumatra in Indonesia.
More than 200,000 people were killed in 11 countries. Many coastal 9 areas were swamped by waves up to 30 meters high.
It was one of the world's worst natural disasters. Indonesia, Thailand, India and Sri Lanka were hardest hit.
Unlike the Pacific, the Indian Ocean did not have a system to warn coastal communities that a tsunami was on the way.
In the aftermath of the 2004 disaster, scientists and governments began working on an alert network for the Indian Ocean region.
- Powerful quake sparks tsunami warning in Japan.大地震触发了日本的海啸预警。
- Coastlines all around the Indian Ocean inundated by a huge tsunami.大海啸把印度洋沿岸地区都淹没了。
- The water was even with the rim of the basin.盆里的水与盆边平齐了。
- She looked at him over the rim of her glass.她的目光越过玻璃杯的边沿看着他。
- The bones and muscles are parts of the mechanism of the body.骨骼和肌肉是人体的组成部件。
- The mechanism of the machine is very complicated.这台机器的结构是非常复杂的。
- The channel is marked by buoys. 航道有浮标表示。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- Often they mark the path with buoys. 他们常常用浮标作为航道的标志。 来自辞典例句
- Children are more susceptible than adults.孩子比成人易受感动。
- We are all susceptible to advertising.我们都易受广告的影响。
- The children got ashore before the tide came in.涨潮前，孩子们就上岸了。
- He laid hold of the rope and pulled the boat ashore.他抓住绳子拉船靠岸。
- It is difficult to pinpoint when water problems of the modern age began.很难准确地指出，现代用水的问题是什么时候出现的。
- I could pinpoint his precise location on a map.我能在地图上指明他的准确位置。
- Earthquakes produce two types of seismic waves.地震产生两种地震波。
- The latest seismic activity was also felt in northern Kenya.肯尼亚北部也感觉到了最近的地震活动。