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四川地震英语作文 全球百年地震灾难记(中英文)

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  21 September 1999:

  Taiwan is hit by a quake measuring 7.6 that kills nearly 2,500 people and causes damage to every town on the island.

  1999年9月21日,台湾岛发生里氏7.6级地震,2500人死亡,岛上所有城镇均遭破坏。

  17 August 1999:

  An magnitude 7.4 earthquake rocks the Turkish cities of Izmit and Istanbul, leaving more than 17,000 dead and many more injured.

  1999年8月17日,土耳其发生里氏7.4级地震,17000人死亡。

  30 May 1998:

  Northern Afghanistan is hit by a major earthquake, killing 4,000 people.

  1998年5月30日,阿富汗北部地区发生地震,4000人丧生。

  May 1997:

  More than 1,600 killed in Birjand, eastern Iran, in an earthquake of magnitude 7.1.

  1997年5月,伊朗东部发生7.1级地震,1600余人丧生。

  27 May 1995:

  The far eastern island of Sakhalin is hit by a massive earthquake, measuring 7.5, which claims the lives of 1,989 Russians.

  1995年5月27日,俄库页岛发生7.5级地震,1989人丧生。

  17 January 1995:

  The Hyogo quake hits the city of Kobe in Japan, killing 6,430 people.

  1995年1月17日,日本神户发生地震,6430人丧生。

  30 September 1993:

  About 10,000 villagers are killed in western and southern India.

  1993年9月30日,印度西南部地区10000村民在地震中丧生。

  21 June 1990:

  Around 40,000 people die in a tremor in the northern Iranian province of Gilan.

  1990年6月21日,伊朗吉兰发生地震,40000人丧生。

  7 December 1988:

  An earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale devastates north-west Armenia, killing 25,000 people.

  1988年12月7日,亚美尼亚西北部发生里氏6.9级地震,25000人丧生。

  19 September 1985:

  Mexico City is shaken by a huge earthquake which razes buildings and kills 10,000 people.

  1985年9月19日,墨西哥城遭遇强力地震,大楼夷为平地,10000人丧生。

  28 July 1976:

  The Chinese city of Tangshan is reduced to rubble in a quake that claims at least 250,000 lives.

  1976年7月28日,中国城市唐山发生大地震,全市夷为平地,至少250000人丧生。

  23 December 1972:

  Up to 10,000 people are killed in the Nicaraguan capital Managua by an earthquake that measures 6.5 on the Richter scale. The devastation caused by the earthquake was blamed on badly built high-rise buildings that easily collapsed.

  1972年12月23日,尼加拉瓜首都马纳瓜发生里氏6.5级地震,10000人死亡。质量不过关的烂尾楼使地震损失加倍。

  31 May 1970:

  An earthquake high in the Peruvian Andes triggers a landslide burying the town of Yungay and killing 66,000 people.

  1970年5月31日,秘鲁发生地震,山体滑坡,淹没云盖镇,66000人死亡。

  26 July 1963:

  An earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale strikes the Macedonian capital of Skopje killing 1,000 and leaving 100,000 homeless.

  1963年7月26日,马其顿首都斯科普里发生里氏6.9级地震,1000人死亡,十万人无家可归。

  22 May 1960:

  The world's strongest recorded earthquake devastates Chile, with a reading of 9.5 on the Richter scale. A tsunami 30ft (10m) high eliminates entire villages in Chile and kills 61 hundreds of miles away in Hawaii.

  1960年5月22日,智利发生全球最强烈的9.5级地震。十米高的海啸冲向智利村镇,数百英里外的夏威夷岛死亡61人。

  1 September 1923:

  The Great Kanto earthquake, with its epicentre just outside Tokyo, claims the lives of 142,800 people in the Japanese capital.

  1923年9月1日,以东京周边为震中发生的关东地震中,142800东京人丧生。

  18 April 1906:

  San Francisco is hit by a series of violent shocks which last up to a minute. Between 700 and 3,000 people die either from collapsing buildings or in the subsequent fire.

  1906年4月18日, 美国旧金山发生8.3级地震,一分钟之内发生一系列事故,700-3000人死于楼房坍塌或者火灾。

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