特别广播英语第 151 课：Predicting Earthquakes 预测地震-3

Earthquake prediction is still a young science. 地震预测仍然是一门年轻的科学。

Everyone agrees that earthquakes cannot be predicted with any reliability. 人们都认为地震不可能可靠地预测。

Scientists have only a partial understanding of the physical processes that cause earthquakes. Much more research has to be done. 科学家对引起地震的物理过程只是部分了解，还必须作更多的研究，

New and more up to-date methods have to be found for collecting earthquake data and analyzing it. 必须找到新的和更先进的方法收集地震数据并加以分析。

However, scientists have had some success in predicting earthquakes. Several small earthquakes were predicted in New York State, in the eastern part of the United States. 不过，科学家已经在地震预测方面取得了一些成功：美国东部纽约州的几次小地震就已预测到了，

Chinese scientists predicted a major one in Haicheng in 1975, and Russian scientists predicted a major one in Garm in 1978. 1975年中国科学家预测到了海城大地震，1978年俄罗斯科学家预测了加尔姆大地震。

While this is a small start, it is still a beginning. 虽然这只是个小小的起步，但毕竟是一个开端。