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12月12日,一场地震袭击了萨瓦尔多,摧毁了萨尔瓦多首都圣萨尔瓦多的电话服务系统。外电报道如下:A strong earthquake rattled El Salvador on Monday, knocking out telephone service, but no injuries were reported.

The national seismological service said that the quake, which hit at 9:23 a.m. (10:23 a.m. EST), had a magnitude of 6.1 and was centered near Los Cobanos beach, about 55 miles south of the capital. The U.S. National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colorado, calculated the magnitude at 5.9.

Seismological表示“地震学上的”,其名词形式为seismology(地震学),相关词汇还有seismograph(地震仪,测震仪)和seismographer(地震学者,地震检测学家)等。

萨尔瓦多是中美洲面积最小(约为台湾的三分之二)、人口最稠密、工业化程度最高的国家。该国地处热带,自然景观丰富,火山地形是其最大特色,全国最有名的3座火山为绿色小丘(Cerro Verde)、伊萨尔克(Izalco)和桑塔安那(Santa Ana)。2001年,萨瓦尔多的一场地震造成了几千人死亡。

(中国日报网站编)

 
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