日本估計怪胎地震可能殺死卅二萬人

日本估計怪胎地震可能殺死卅二萬人
Japan estimates monster quake could kill 320,000
by Staff Writers
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 29, 2012

Japan's government on Wednesday unveiled a worst case disaster scenario that warned a monster earthquake in the Pacific Ocean could kill over 320,000 people, dwarfing last year's quake-tsunami disaster.
日本的政府在週三公諸於眾在最壞情況下的災難場景，警告一場太平洋的怪胎地震可能會殺死超過32萬人，使去年的地震-海嘯災難相形見絀
Tokyo's casualty toll estimate was based on a catastrophic scenario in which a powerful undersea quake of about 9.0 magnitude sparked a giant tsunami that swamps Japan's coastline south of Tokyo
東京的傷亡人數估計是基於一場災難性的場景，其中一次強力的9.0級海底地震引發一場巨大的海嘯，使日本東京以南的海岸線淹沒。
The Cabinet Office's hypothetical disaster would see the quake strike at nighttime during the winter with strong winds helping unleash waves that reach 34-metre (110 feet), sweeping many victims away as they slept.
內閣辦公室的假設性災難會看到冬季來襲的地震在夜間發生，有強風幫助宣洩的波浪高達34米（110英尺），在睡覺的時候將許多受害者掃走。
Many of the estimated 323,000 victims would be drowned by the tsunami, crushed under falling objects or in fires sparked by the disaster, it said.
估計323,000受害者中的許多人將被海嘯淹沒，被掉落的物體壓碎或身陷災難引發的火災，它說。
On March 11 last year, a 9.0 magnitude quake struck seismically-active Japan in the early afternoon, triggering tsunami waves that reached 20 metres.
去年3月11日的一次9.0級地震在午後襲擊地震活躍的日本，觸發達到20米的海嘯波浪。
About 19,000 were killed or remain missing while the tsunami slammed into the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, sending reactors into meltdown and sparking the worst atomic crisis in a generation.

"As long as we live in Japan, we cannot deny the possibility of a huge earthquake and tsunami," Masaharu Nakagawa, state minister for disaster management, told reporters Wednesday.

The report was designed to paint a worst-case scenario and help officials boost their disaster preparedness.

An estimate in 2003 assumed casualties of about 25,000 people, but that scenario envisioned a less powerful 8.4 magnitude quake striking a smaller area.

The deadliest quake in Japanese history struck the central Kanto region in 1923, killing at least 100,000 people.

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