Discovering the silent earthquake on kilauea suggests that the volcano ' s south flank is on the move ? perhaps on its way to eventual obliteration 奇劳亚火山发生无声地震一事,暗示著火山的南侧正在移动或许,它正通往最终毁灭的道路。
New discoveries about the way kilauea is slipping can be easily generalized to other island volcanoes that may not have similar buttressing structures 我们对奇劳亚火山滑动方式的新发现,或许可以用来简单地概括其他火山岛,尽管它们未必具有类似的支撑结构。
Nine days before the most recent silent earthquake on kilauea , a torrential rainstorm dropped nearly a meter of water on the volcano in less than 36 hours 就在奇劳亚火山最近一次发生无声地震的九天前,一阵猛烈的暴风雨在36小时之内让火山地区累积了将近一公尺的雨量。
The slopes of volcanoes such as kilauea become steep and vulnerable to this kind of collapse when the lava from repeated eruptions builds them up more rapidly than they can erode away 要是熔岩不断喷发而出,且累积的速度比侵蚀还快,像奇劳亚这样火山的坡度便会越来越陡峭,最后势必难以招架这样的坍塌。
Kilauea ' s network of more than 20 gps stations , for example , has already revealed that the volcano experiences creep , silent earthquakes as well as large , destructive typical earthquakes 举例来说,涵盖了20多个gps接收站的奇劳亚火山接收网,就曾记录到潜移、无声地震,以及大规模具有破坏性的典型地震。