| Chinese | English |
| 减轻地震灾害计划 | Earthquake Hazard Reduction Prog ram |
| 地震 | earthquake The violent shaking of the ground produced by deep seismic waves, beneath the epicentre, generated by a sudden decrease or release in a volume of rock of elastic strain accumulated over a long time in regions of seismic activity (tectonic earthquake). The magnitude of an earthquake is represented by the Richter scale; the intensity by the Mercalli scale (由地震中央深处的地震波引起地面的猛烈摇动，在一个地震活动性(构造地震)区域，岩体内累积超过一段长时间的弹性应力突然地减少和释放所产生。地震的大小用芮氏(Richter)震级来表示；地震强度用麦加利(Mercalli)震级来表示) |
| 地震工程 | seismic engineering The study of the behavior of foundations and structures relative to seismic ground motion, and the attempt to mitigate the effect of earthquakes on structures (对地震地区相关的结构和行为的研究，致力于减轻地震对结构的影响。) |
| 地震活动 | seismic activity The phenomenon of Earth movements (地球活动的现象。) |
| 地震的海浪 | seismic sea wave A large seismically generated sea wave which is capable of considerable destruction in certain coastal areas, especially where submarine earthquakes occur. Although in the open ocean the wave height may be less than one meter it steepens to hights of 15 metres or more on entering shallow coastal water. The wavelength in the open ocean is of the order of 100 to 150 km and the rate of travel of a seismic sea wave is between 640 and 960 km/h (很大的地震引起的海浪，会在海岸地区摧毁很多房屋，特别是当发生海底地震时。尽管大部分海域，海浪的高度可能低于一米，但当它进入狭窄的海岸流域，海浪会升高到15米或更高。在开阔的海域，海浪的宽度是100到150公里，地震引起的海浪传播速度是640到960公里每小时之间。) |
| 地震监测 | seismic monitoring The gathering of seismic data from an area (从一个地区搜集地震数据。) |
