目录介绍:
高分收集《纽约时报》对汶川地震的的全部报道!急!
A day after parents staged an impromptu rally in Mianzhu on Saturday, the Communist Party’s top local official, Jiang Guohua, came to plead with the protesters to not carry out their plan to march to Chengdu, the provincial capital, where they sought to prevail on higher-level authorities. Mr. Jiang, on his knees, failed to deter the parents, who shouted in his face and continued their march.
Scientists in China and the U.S. have published new reports examining the possibility that a giant dam may have helped to trigger last May's massive earthquake in China's Sichuan province, renewing controversy over the devastation and other dam-building projects across China's earthquake-prone western regions.
Evidence remains unclear on what effect the added pressure of water collected behind one dam would have on an earthquake of that size. The Zipingpu Dam is 5.5 kilometers away from the epicenter of the Sichuan quake, a 7.9 magnitude temblor. It killed about 80,000 people.
The dam was built 500 meters from the earthquake's fault line. A research paper by a group of Chinese scientists concluded that the weight of collected water clearly affected seismic activity. 'It is worthwhile to further study if the effect played a role' in triggering the quake, according to an abstract of the paper published in the December issue of the Chinese Journal of Geology and Seismology.
Separately, Christian Klose, a researcher at Columbia University, put the extra weight of water in the area at about 320 million tons, without mentioning the dam by name. He said it 'amplified the strain on the earth's crust' in a way that would alter the stresses below.
In China, debate could have an impact on plans to build even more dams. A group of 62 Chinese environmentalists and scientists has already appealed for a moratorium on dam construction in the region pending further study of the risks. The government -- and some Chinese scientists -- has said there is no connection between the dam and the quake.
Scientists discovered 10 years after the Hoover Dam was built in 1935 that its reservoir was increasing seismic activity. Since then, it has been well established that other human endeavors can set off powerful tremors beneath the earth's surface. These include coal mining, quarrying, oil drilling, and the injection of wastewater into the ground. Along China's Three Gorges Dam, officials acknowledge that seismic activity has increased slightly since the 400-mile reservoir began filling eight years ago.
Proving that such projects cause large earthquakes is another matter. 'What was the rate of seismic activity in the area before the dam was built, and did that rate increase after the dam began to fill with water?' says Ross Stein, a geophysicist at the United States Geological Survey and member of a team that published a 'stress analysis' of the Sichuan quake. 'In the absence of that,' he adds, 'it's a very hard case to make.'
外国如何报道四川地震
一些外国媒体高度关注中国四川地震灾害
中国四川汶川12日发生重大地震灾害后,英国、新西兰、马来西亚等国媒体对此表示密切关注,一些媒体对中国政府的救灾工作予以积极评价。
美国电视台有没有播汶川大地震的新闻呢
有的 而且美国NBC电视台在北京奥运会的开幕式转播中 还插入了关于汶川地震的介绍
汶川地震,外国人怎么看
美国《纽约时报》7月2日文章,原题:地震暴露中国军队的不足 这些中国军人脚穿帆布鞋、肩负背包,风风火火地赶赴国家灾难现场。他们浩浩荡荡开进山里,个个背着铁铲,通过绳子和人力,将受阻道路上屋子般大小的巨石移走。他们爬过砖块和混凝土堆,倾听废墟下是否有人声。5月四川发生地震后,中国紧急派出来自陆海空和第二炮兵的13万大军深入山区,这是中国自1979年以来最大规模的军队部署。
他们坚忍不拔地投身于救灾的形象清晰呈现于公众视野和新闻媒体,同时也给分析家们提供了绝佳机会,来评估在中国投入军队数百亿美元以来部队在危机中的表现。中国军队此次在国内公共关系上得分良好,但在一些老资格的观察家眼里印象一般。
情报研究与分析中心的中国军事问题专家詹姆斯??马尔维农表示,地震暴露了中国军队的优点和不足。它动员迅速,但没有做好在分秒必争的头72小时救人的准备,“这帮小伙子徒步翻山越岭,徒手挖出幸存者。这算不上是一支一流的现代化军队。”
一位知名防务分析家表示,像第二炮兵工程部队等专业化部队懂得如何从废墟下救人,而绝大多数军人几乎没有接受过类似训练。
美国驻华前武官丹尼斯??布拉斯科说,中国军方投入大约100架直升机,向偏远山区运送食品、补给、医疗队及营救伤者。但布拉斯科和其他专家说,由于军队没有重型直升机,重要设备如挖掘机、起重机不得不通过受山体滑坡阻塞的陆路开进,这延缓了营救行动。
中国和西方分析家一致认为,中国军队缺乏重型直升机和运输机是地震初期营救行动的最大瓶颈。他们说,军队通讯条件糟糕,未能迅速获得卫星图像以帮助决策。
澳大利亚前国防部官员阿伦??贝姆认为,相比于工程技能,中国军队明显更加重视常规作战。尽管中国军队努力进行现代化,“但其强军思想仍停留在把大部队运送到战场。”
中国经常部署军队应对自然灾害、社会骚乱及其他国内安全问题。加州大学圣迭戈分校全球冲突和合作研究所高级研究员张大铭(音)说,除了准备与台湾可能爆发冲突,中国正“专注于在境内投放兵力,以确保社会稳定。”专家们说,中国军队近来参加国家建设、国防和救灾行动之广表明它正寻求自身的角色定位。▲(作者杰克??胡克,汪析译)
网友评论
最新评论
r the stresses below.In China, debate could have an impact on plans to build even more dams. A g