The largest recorded earthquake in modern times on the island of Hispaniola was an 8.1-magnitude temblor that produced a tsunami and killed 1,790 people.

An earthquake ( also known as a quake, tremor, or temblor) is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves.

地震（又称地动、地振动）是地壳快速释放能量过程中造成的振动，期间会产生地震波。

But given the military's lack of airlift capacity, just a fraction were able to arrive in the quake-hit area by plane in the first day or so after the temblor hit.

但是，鉴于中国军队缺乏空运能力，只有一小部分士兵能在震后第一天左右的时间抵达灾区。

Report says, this pair suffers the Hawaiian house price after violent temblor is invaded, it is needle of potion strong heart undoubtedly, have "stable soldier's morale" action.

报导说，这对遭受强烈地震侵袭后的夏威夷房价，无疑是一剂强心针，具有“稳定军心”的作用。

At least 20 aftershocks registering a 6.0 magnitude or higher have followed the main temblor.

在主震过后，至少又发生了20次6级以上的余震。

The international community is rushing to provide emergency aid for the impoverished Caribbean nation, where as many as three million people are believed to have been affected by Tuesday's 7.0-magnitude temblor that struck outside the capital, Port-au-Prince.

国际社会正在加紧对这个贫困的加勒比海国家提供紧急援助。据信星期二在海地首都太子港城外发生的里氏7.0级的地震已经影响到多达300万人。

Still, the temblor struck a rural but relatively densely populated region.

不过地震虽然发生在农村地区，但当地人口稠密。

Experts say a much bigger temblor, possibly of magnitude 7.8, is likely to hit near Los Angeles on the southern San Andreas Fault in coming years.

专家表示，未来几年，更加强大的地震，或许是7.8级的地震可能会袭击南部的圣安德利亚断层。

When the temblor struck, that weakness probably caused a bigger portion of the sea bottom in the area to deform suddenly, thereby displacing more seawater and creating bigger tsunamis.

当地震发生时，这个脆弱的地方可能造成该区域海底一个较大的部分突然变型，从而使更多的海水改变位置形成更大规模的海啸。

The massive temblor may have caused catastrophic landslides, damming up the Sanxingdui culture's main water source and diverting it to a new location.

这次巨大的震动可能引起了灾难性的滑坡和山崩，挡住了三星堆文明的主要水源，并将水引到了一个新的地点去。

The temblor was in the same area as last month's6.5 earthquake that damaged hundreds of buildings in Eureka, a quiet town on Humboldt Bay.

上月该地还发生了6.5级地震，尤里卡的建筑遭到了损坏。尤里卡是洪堡湾一个安静的小镇。

The tilde character (~) is used as a column separator so that the data collected in the flat file can be parsed using a spreadsheet application such as Microsoft Excel to analyze it further.

波浪符号（~）用作列分隔符，让收集到文件中的数据可以使用电子表格应用程序（比如microsoft excel）来进行解析，以便进一步分析它们。

For example, you can refer to your home directory with the sigil~ ( tilde).

例如，您可以使用符号~（波浪符号）引用您的home目录。

You must put the name of a user on your system immediately after the tilde.

你必须把你的系统上的用户名后立即波形。

The convention used here is to name the conjugate the same as the service specification, except starting with a~. ( tilde symbol).

这里所使用的会话是为了将变形命名为同服务规范一致的名字，除了以符号~开头之外。

To log out from the zone enterthe~. ( tilde dot) command.

要从专区注销，输入“~.”命令。

You can switch the case of the alpha character underneath your cursor in vi the tilde key (~).

在vi中，可以切换游标下的字母字符的大小写，方法是按Escape，然后按波浪号键（~）。

You can also use a tilde (~) to mean your own home directory and~ username to mean the home directory of the user named username.

您还可以使用一个波浪符号（~）来表示自己的主目录，并使用~用户名表示名为username的用户的主目录。

You can also use tilde to list or work with files in another user's home directory ( if your permissions allow it).

还可以使用波浪号列示或处理另一个用户的主目录中的文件（如果有足够权限）。

In parenthesis now is a tilde which is shorthand notation for My Home Directory.

在圆括号里的，代表根目录。

In the following examples, the tilde character is shorthand for "the home directory of."

在下面的例子中，波形符字符为“主目录的简写。”