earthquake forecasting

基本解释

Take the case of earthquake forecasting.
以地震预测为例。
Japan's earthquake forecasting program, which monitors factors such as seismic activity and crustal deformation, may eventually watch tidal activity as well.
日本的地震预测系统现在已经在观测地壳活动和形变，也许它们还要将海潮纳入观测范围。
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.
下面，由美国地质调查局地震预险项目组的副项目协调员迈克尔·布兰皮得博士向您解答最近发生地震的起因、地震预测等问题。

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.
ECONOMIST: An extraordinary manslaughter trial starts in Italy