地震又称地动、地振动，是地壳快速释放能量过程中造成振动，期间会产生地震波的一种自然现象。地球上板块与板块之间相互挤压碰撞，造成板块边沿及板块内部产生错动和破裂，是引起地震的主要原因。据统计，地球上每年约发生500多万次地震，即每天要发生上万次的震。其中绝大多数太小或太远，以至于人们感觉不到。那么你知道地震用英语怎么说吗?下面来学习一下吧。

地震英语说法：

earthquake

地震的英语例句：

导致地震的因果链

The chain of causality that produces an earthquake

地震导致62人死亡。

The earthquake killed 62 people.

从全球范围看，这次地震算不了什么。

On a world scale the earthquake was a tiddler.

旧金山地震是世纪性的灾难之一。

The San Francisco earthquake was one of the worst catastrophes of the century.

地震对这个城市造成了大破坏。

The earthquake wreaked havoc on the city.

因为地震，每天飞往这个城市的航班暂停了。

The daily flight to the city has been temporarily suspended because of the earthquake.

这次地震是个可怕的灾难。

The earthquake was a terrible catastrophe.

本世纪有四次大的地震。

There were four major quakes in this century.

地震计是一种地震仪器，其物理常数是已知的。

A seismometer is a seismograph whose physical constants are so well known.

我们什么时候能预测地震而不是报道地震?

When can we predict earthquakes instead of reporting them?

主余震地震序列的地震振幅比不稳定。

But the seismic amplitude ratio of major aftershock was not steady.

新安装的地震仪将可监听冰河地震的声音。

Newly installed seismometers will listen for glacial earthquakes.

但诸如地震和海啸这样的自然灾害揭示出，这个精心打造的生态体系其实有多么脆弱。

But natural disasters such as the earthquake and tsunami reveal just how fragile this carefully crafted ecosystem can be.

地震的震级达到里氏5.3级。

The earthquake registered 5.3 points on the Richter scale.

在每年会发生几十次地震的国家建造核电站简直就是愚蠢至极。

It's sheer folly to build nuclear power stations in a country that has dozens of earthquakes every year.

有10万户左右的家庭在地震中失去了家园，其中许多家庭还没有得到安置。

Many of the 100,000 or so families who lost their homes in the earthquake have still not been rehoused.

美国地质调查局揭示了此次地震并非由大陆板块间简单的水平交错运动所引起。

The United States Geological Survey has revealed that the earthquake was not caused by a simple horizontal movement of one plate past another.

最近的灾难性地震

The recent, disastrous earthquake

昨天夜里你没有被地震惊醒吗?

Were you wakened by the earthquake last night?