earthquake forecasting

基本解释

Take the case of earthquake forecasting.
以地震預測爲例。
Japan's earthquake forecasting program, which monitors factors such as seismic activity and crustal deformation, may eventually watch tidal activity as well.
日本的地震預測系統現在已經在觀測地殼活動和形變，也許它們還要將海潮納入觀測範圍。
Dr. Michael Blanpied, associate program coordinator for the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program, took your questions about the causes of the recent quakes, earthquake forecasting and more.
下麪，由美國地質調查侷地震預險項目組的副項目協調員邁尅爾·佈蘭皮得博士曏您解答最近發生地震的起因、地震預測等問題。

Unfortunately for the science of earthquake forecasting (though fortunately for the residents of Parkfield and Tokyo), neither of the predicted shocks has yet happened.
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He points out that, with the exception of an informal system in California, no country in the world has yet set up regular probabilistic earthquake forecasting that can be used to guide emergency actions.
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Thomas Jordan, an Earth scientist at the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles, who chaired an international review of earthquake forecasting in Italy in the wake of L'Aquila's quake, says that these calculations must be put into context.
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