一场地震英语作文【精彩19篇】

Strong earthquake hits China

A powerful earthquake measuring 7.8 has hit Chinas southern province of Sichuan, shaking buildings as far away as Beijing, Shanghai and Bangkok.

It was not immediately clear if there were any casualties or damage from the tremor which the the US Geological Survey (UGS) earlier put at 7.8.

The epicentre of the quake was 93 kilometres north of Chengdu.

Wenchuan, which took full force of the quake, has a population of 111,000 people.

It is in an ethnic Tibetan area in Aba county which recently saw violent clashes between Tibetans and Chinese authorities.

According to some reports there was a second earthquake measuring 3.9 which hit the Beijing district of Tongzhou at roughly the same time.

Telephone lines in the affected area are jammed and there are still no reports of casualties.

Reports from Thailand say high buildings in Bangkok continued to shake several minutes after the tremors began.

"We felt continuous shaking for about two or three minutes. All the people in our office are rushing downstairs. Were still feeling slight tremblings," said an office worker in Chengdu.

Chinas tallest building, the Jinmao Tower, and other highrise buildings in Shanghais financial district were evacuated after tremors were first felt.

"People were shouting get out, get out, so we all ran out of our dorm," said a student surnamed Zhang at a university in nearby Chongqing.

A spokesman for the China Earthquake Administration said it was still checking the epicentre and scale of the tremor.

Strong earthquake damage so large to show once again brought out. In the vicinity of the epicenter and in some cities and villages many houses collapsed and damaged roads telecommunications disruption many schools and hospitals have become ruins. Human vibrant homes Zhuanshun between appalling.

This is a natural disaster caused by difficult to avoid the tragedy it is sad. And this kind of tragedy and in fact the long history of human companions Ruyingsuixing. Far not said that the 1976 Tangshan earthquake despite the past 32 years but has remained a matter of fear. In 1998 the major flood disaster in 2003 the "atypical pneumonia" crisis the end of 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and the recent tropical storm in Myanmar have caused a large number of casualties and property losses. Human nature is no stranger to disaster but when Wenchuan earthquake and the plain reality of the time the natural power of human beings before the fragile exposed completely.

Wenchuan earthquake the people to disaster areas has caused tremendous physical and mental suffering but also makes the map as a small region the people throughout the country the most about the place. As a so-called human life compatriots suffering in some of the time the countrys grief out of the full performance. The international community has also expressed concern about the rapid and condolences.

When a major earthquake has occurred and aftershocks continued the key word at this time only a matter of fact the word "save" and "assistance." In a sense the "assistance" is also "save" an integral part. There is no doubt that relief has become Chinas current government and the people most important task.

2015年4月20日，四川省雅安市芦山发生强烈地震，造成很大损失。学校号召全体师生向灾区捐款。请你拟一个发言稿，在学校捐款动员大会上使用。发言稿主要内容应包括：

1. 对灾区情况的简单介绍(包括地震发生时间、地点、造成的财产和人员损失等);

2. 捐款的意义(帮助灾区人民渡过难关、帮助灾区重建);

3. 如何捐款(自愿、多少不限、以班级为单位，收齐后交到学校红十字会) 注意：

1. 不要逐条翻译;

2. 可适当增加细节;以使文章连贯;

3. 词数至少100词。 参考范文：

Dear teachers and students,

As we all know, a terrible earthquake happened in Lushan, Sichuan Province on April 20, in which many buildings were destroyed and many people were injured. In order to help the earthquake victims to go through the hard times and rebuild their hometown, the school has called on everyone in our school, including both teachers and students, to donate money to the earthquake-stricken area. This donation is voluntary. You can give away however much you want to. The money will be collected by each class before it is handed to the Red Cross Society of our school. We hope that everyone will be kind enough to do what you can to help our fellowmen out of the difficulty. Thank you.

May 12th is an ordinary day in 2008it is in this day that shocking earthquake happened in Sichuan provinceChina.The earthquake destroyed nearly everything in Wenchuan country Sichuan province. It was terrible.We cant describle the scene what we saw with any words.Thousands of people were injured even died. And thousands of children became such unlucky ones who lost fathers or mothers they longed to have families to continue their lives .I am sympathetic to their fate ! But I believed that we can fight against the fate and change it .For example there many people keeping living without food or water for about 100 hours during the earthquake!

What an unbelievable thing it is !their great spirits showed the powerful life vitality of humans!Howeverthey must keep fighting against the death .Many schools were destroyed and there were many students and teachers who left us forever.Sadnesshoplessness and different kinds of danger spreaded out here and there !

But fortunately love is around us :the Communist party helps us the army helps us the people all over the world help us .They offer us with money goods love and so on !For example li lian ji a warm-hearted man offered us with 20 million yuan !

With the help of the such a large love we will over come the damage of the earthquake and face our beautiful future !

Premier Wen Jiabao, earthquake relief in the frontline commander-in-chief, a session of more than 60-year-old, aftershocks continue in the disaster scene to the spirit of ecstasy in the rubble piled up on the ruins of trouble, and even save people very anxious hands. Fall, climb up, injured his arm bleeding so doctors do not dress, but for a doctor to rescue injured victims. Ciqingcijing, how can we prevent it moving. If it is our own parents, sons and daughters of which it is not Jiuxin ? !

From the disaster of the day, Premier Wen will be the first time in arriving in the area in temporary tents set up in command of the earthquake, relief, rescue. Be buried in the primary school next to the ruins, the Prime Minister with hoarse, choked words, to the ruins of the children propaganda. A reporter at the scene through QQ issued immediately report said: "over 60 of the Prime Minister has no way of the Kude." In fact, Premier Wen is not not strong, but the heart of the Prime Minister for immediate disaster and heartache, this is Love the peoples good premier at this time reveal the truth.

Where victims of the most dangerous situations where the most serious, Premier Wen Jiabao on command in trouble. We can see that in the most severe earthquake relief moment, of all rescue teams to overcome the difficult 1,000 million insurance, with the fastest speed and rushed to the disaster area, the earthquake has more than 60,000 people were rescued. We felt the earthquake relief is the courage, strength, hope for. The people across the country will not be deterred by this major disaster, there will not be immediate destroyed by the tragedy. We firmly believe that with the party and the governments strong leadership, people of all nationalities throughout the country to aid earthquake relief will be a victory!

温总理，抗震救灾的一线总指挥，一位年届六十多岁的老人，在余震不断的救灾现场，以忘我的精神在瓦砾成堆的废墟上奔波，甚至急得亲自动手救人。摔倒了、爬起来，手臂受伤出血也不让医生包扎，而是让医生去抢救受伤灾民。此情此景，怎能不让我们为之感动。倘若是我们自己的父母，哪一个儿女不为之揪心?!

从灾情发生的那一天起，温总理便在第一时间抵达灾区，在临时搭起的帐篷中指挥抗震、救灾、救人。在被掩埋的小学废墟旁，总理用嘶哑、哽咽的话语，向废墟中的孩子喊话。一位在现场的记者通过QQ发出即时报道称：“年过花甲的总理已经哭得不成样子了。”其实，不是温总理不坚强，而是心系人民的总理为眼前的灾难而心痛，这是热爱人民的好总理此时此刻的真情流露。

哪里灾民最多，哪里险情最严重，温总理就指挥到哪里。我们看到在抗震救灾最严峻的时刻，各路救援队伍，克服千难万险，以最快的速度奔赴灾区，震区已有6万多人被救出。我们感受到了抗震救灾的勇气所在、力量所在、希望所在。全国人民不会被这一重大灾情所吓倒，更不会被眼前出现的悲情所摧垮。我们坚信，有党和政府的坚强领导，有全国各族人们的努力援助，抗震救灾一定会取得胜利!

AnEarthquakeis the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earths crust that creates seismic waves . Earthquakes are recorded with a seismometer , also known as a seismograph . The moment magnitude of an earthquake is conventionally reported, or the related and mostly obsolete Richter magnitude , with magnitude 3 or lower earthquakes being mostly imperceptible and magnitude 7 causing serious damage over large areas. Intensity of shaking is measured on the modified Mercalli scale.

At the Earths surface, earthquakes manifest themselves by a shaking and sometimes displacement of the ground. When a large earthquake epicenter is located offshore, the seabed sometimes suffers sufficient displacement to cause a tsunami . The shaking in earthquakes can also trigger landslides and occasionally volcanic activity.

In its most generic sense, the word earthquake is used to describe any seismic event—whether a natural phenomenon or an event caused by humans—that generates seismic waves. Earthquakes are caused mostly by rupture of geological faults , but also by volcanic activity, landslides, mine blasts, and nuclear experiments.

An earthquakes point of initial rupture is called its focus or hypocenter. The term epicenter means the point at ground level directly above this.

地震的能量突然释放的结果创造了地震波在地壳中。地震检波器记录,也称为地震仪。地震的矩震级是常规报道,或相关的,大多是过时的里克特震级,3级或低主要是无法察觉的,7级地震导致大面积严重损害。震动强度是衡量麦式震级范围修改。

显现在地球的表面,地震的震动,有时位移。当大地震震中位于海外,海底有时会出现足够的位移导致海啸。地震的震动也能引发山体滑坡和偶尔的火山活动。

在其最一般的意义上说,“地震”这个词是用来描述任何地震event-whether自然现象或一个事件引起的人类产生地震波。地震是主要由地质断层破裂引起的,但也受到火山活动,山体滑坡,我的爆炸,核的实验。

地震的初始破裂称为它的焦点或震源。这个词意味着中心指向地面的正上方。

On April 25, 2015, 14 at 11 points, Nepal (28.2 degrees north latitude, 84.7 degrees east longitude) a magnitude 8.1 earthquake, focal depth of 20 km, 70 aftershocks. The epicenter is located in pokhara, maximum intensity of X, heavy intensity area from the epicenter of eastward.

As of May 1, 2015, the quake killed at least 7040 people, 14123 people were injured, Tibet, China, India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, etc are casualties.

The earthquake epicenter located in pokhara, the city is the second largest city of Nepal, the famous tourist resort. For the mountain near the epicenter, broken terrain secondary disasters such as landslide risk is extremely high. Earthquake zone building aseismic performance is very poor, mud-brick building types in masonry structure, give priority to.

Nepal, India, China, Bangladesh, Pakistan and other countries and regions of the earthquake was felt, and adjacent to the Tibet autonomous region of Nepal jilong xian xigaze nyalam county, tingri county, felt very strongly.

2015年4月25日14时11分，尼泊尔(北纬28.2度，东经84.7度)发生8.1级地震，震源深度20千米，余震70次。震中位于博克拉，最大烈度为X度，重烈度区从震中向东延伸。

截至2015年5月1日，地震至少造成7040人死亡，14123人受伤，中国西藏、印度、孟加拉国、不丹等地均出现人员伤亡。

地震震中位于博克拉，该城市是尼泊尔第二大城市、著名旅游胜地。震中附近为山地破碎地形，滑坡等次生灾害发生风险极高。震区建筑物抗震性能很差，建筑物类型以砌石结构、土砖房为主。

尼泊尔、印度、中国、孟加拉国、巴基斯坦等国家和地区对地震都有震感，与尼泊尔毗邻的西藏自治区日喀则市聂拉木县、定日县、吉隆县震感非常强烈。

everyone has some unforgettable experiences.

last monday, there was a serious earthquake in sichuan province. many people were killed. a large number of houses collapsed. i was shocked. when i see theses pictures on tv, my eyes were filled with tears. i wanted to do something for people in the disaster areas.

two days later, in front of the library of our school, almost all of the teachers and students came to donate money. i was moved. i thought although i couldn’t go to sichuan like the soldiers and the doctors, i still wanted to try my best to help them. i took out all my pocket money and threw it into the donation box.

i hope they can rebuild their homeland early. it will be an unforgettable experience in my life. it makes me experience that if everyone makes a contribution for our country, we can overcome any difficulties.

[地震献爱心的英语作文

May 12th, 2008. That’s the most mournful day for our Chinese that will

never be forgotten, because a horrible earthquake happened in Wenchuan, which

caused tens of thousands of children’s death.

On hearing the news, I felt so sorrowful. “Why was the god so cruel to

them?” I asked. They were still at the entrance of the life. They seemed like

little eagles that were willing to open their wings and hover in the sky. Maybe

they would have their brilliant future. What a great loss to our nation! I had

my deepest sympathy on the people in the disastrous area. So I donated some

money and clothes to them. And I also prayed for the dead people sincerely. I

eagerly hope that there would be no earthquakes in the future, so that we could

live a more peaceful life.

When mothers were immersed in the joy of mothers day, when the children walking in the childrens day is yearning, when all people expect that the Olympic Games countdown, all of a sudden, shrinks, breaks: 2008 at 14:28 on May 12, a 8.0 -magnitude earthquake wenchuan time terminated at this moment. Human is so small, the life is so fragile, so a few seconds, all over! Rows of torsion crack of slab, the collapse streets bodies, survivors panicked look in the eyes, as if to sigh of the deepest sorrow. Departed relatives, their homes destroyed the whole city lay in ruins, a lifeless.

One party hard, p plus support. Destruction is the wenchuan earthquake, but affects the global Chinese peoples heart. The first time after the earthquake, the volunteers, the peoples liberation army, medical staff rushed to the forefront, day and night ground save buried in the ruins of the life. Successive aftershocks, and continuous heavy rain, the collapse of the debris flow occurred from time to time, always shake their determination to stick to the rescue. "As long as there is a ray of hope, well do efforts a one hundred times," premier wens strong words encouraged everyone to continue to hold on...

One time goes by, the golden 72 hours of rescue already more and more close, all people are looking forward to have more people to be rescued. Sometimes off the lights at night, close your eyes, but I couldnt sleep, and always repeated thought: I can lie in a comfortable bed, covered with a quilt satiated with food and sleep, even as thousands of miles away, at the same time, with many also the burden of being cold floor and bricks, struggling in the ruins of the gap, their hearts in the final a glimmer of hope may hold waiting for rescue workers, or maybe it is slowly despair... I dont know that they could not move, coming along with all the pain and cold, can only put hope on others to live mood how uncomfortable!

Disaster has been a month, but the disaster relief work is far from complete, nor our love like the tide, and as the tide receded, let us heart hand is linked together with the people in the disaster areas, to build homes!

当母亲们沉浸在母亲节的喜悦中，当孩子们徜徉在儿童节的向往中，当所有人期盼在奥运会的倒计时中时，突然间，地动山摇，山崩地裂：2008年的5月12日14时28分，里氏8.0级大地震让汶川的时间在这一刻终止。人类是多么的渺小，生命是如此的脆弱，就那么几秒钟， 一切都完了!崩塌扭裂的楼板，街道旁的一排排尸体，幸存者惊慌失措的眼神，仿佛在发出最深沉悲怆的叹息。亲人离去了，家园毁灭了，整个城市躺在了废墟里，一片死气沉沉。

一方有难，八方支援。地震毁灭的是汶川，但牵动的是全球中华儿女的心。地震后的第一时间，志愿者，解放军，医护人员迅速赶到最前线，不分昼夜地线拯救被埋在残垣断壁里的生命。接连不断的余震，连绵不绝的大雨，不时发生的崩塌泥石流，始终动摇不了他们坚持救援的决心。“只要有一线希望，我们就要尽百倍努力”温家宝总理的坚定的话语鼓励着所有人要继续坚持下去。。。

时间一分一秒的流逝，距离救援的黄金72小时已经越来越近，所有人都在期盼能有更多的人被救出。有时晚上关了灯，闭上眼，我却辗转无法入睡，总是反复的想：我可以躺在舒服的床上，吃饱喝足盖着被子睡觉，可就在几千公里之外，就在同时同刻，很多人还正在被冰冷沉重的楼板和砖头压着，在残垣断壁的缝隙中挣扎着，他们的心在或许抱着最后一丝希望苦苦等待救援人员，又或许正在慢慢绝望。。。我不知道那种自己动弹不得，疼痛和寒冷一并袭来，只能把生存的希望寄托在别人身上的心情有多么难受!

灾难发生已经一个月了，但救灾的工作远远没有完成，我们的爱也不能像潮水一般来，又像潮水一般退去，让我们与灾区人民心手相连，共建家园!

Deep Wounds of the Sichuan Quake

四川地震的深度创伤

Deep Wounds of the Sichuan Quake

One of the recurring themes from last years earthquake in Sichuan is official corruption and the extent it contributed to the collapse of substandard schools, killing a still unknown number of children. Another, less discussed issue, is the degree to which many local officials in the disaster zone were victims themselves.

自去年四川地震以来，一个反复出现的主题是关于政府官员的腐`败，以及因之产生的未达标学校的倒塌，导致仍不知确切数字的孩子们的死亡。而很少论及的另一个问题，是灾区地方官员自己成为受害者的程度。

In Beichuan, where as many as 15,000 residents were killed, a quarter of the local officials also perished in the quake. Many of the survivors lost family members. When my colleague Lin Yang and photographer Ian Teh went back to Sichuan last fall, we met with a Beichuan official whose wife and daughter were both killed on May 12. Zhang Kangqi keeps a drawing of them, sketched from old ID photos, by his bed. All other mementos of them were buried in Beichuan. (You can see Ians photos of the recovery efforts, including a portrait of Zhang, in this gallery.)

在北川，多达15，000名居民死亡，四分之一的地方官员也在地震中死去。许多幸存者失去了家人。去年秋天，我和同事杨林和摄像郑永仁回到四川时，遇到一位北川官员，他的妻子和女儿都在5.12地震中死亡。张康齐保存着从旧身份证的照片上临摹下来的一张她们的画像，放在床头。她们的其它所有遗物都被埋在北川下面了。（在这个画廊中，你可以看到郑永仁画的在关恢复工作的照片，其中包括一幅张的肖像。）

Zhang immersed himself in recovery efforts, but not all his co-workers had the same capacity to work through their suffering. A few weeks before we visited Dong Yufei, another local official who lost his son, killed himself. "He was a good man," Zhang said of Yu, "but not everyone can handle the pressure. His child had died."

张专注地做着恢复工作，但是，他的同事并不都具有同样的战胜痛苦的能力。在我们采访董玉飞之前几个星期，另一位失去儿子的地方官自杀了。“他是个好人，”张提到玉飞说，“不过，并不是每个人都能应付压力。他的孩子死了。”

Yesterday brought the grim news that another Beichuan official committed suicide. Feng Xiang, the vice director of the Beichuan publicity department, had lost his 7-year-old son in the quake. Shortly before his death Feng, 33, wrote a post on his blog titled "What If," urging his family not to grieve. "Son, when you left, your father did not have a future, did not have hope, did not have any expectations," Feng wrote. "To be with you is my biggest joy."

昨天，又传来一个无情的消息，另一位北川官员自杀了。北川宣传部副主任冯翔在地震中失去了七岁的儿子。33岁的冯翔死前不久在博客中以“假如”为题力劝家人不要悲伤。冯写道：“儿子，你离开了，爸爸没有了未来，没有了希望，没有了憧憬，与你相聚，是爸爸最大的快乐。”

4, 12 noon 25 points, yingkou city, liaoning province gaizhou city (40.5 degrees north latitude, 122.4 degrees east longitude) an earthquake of magnitude 4.3, a depth of 6 km. Shenyang, dalian, anshan, liaoyang, file, fushun, benxi, such as more netizens said was felt.

Earthquake is also called the ground shaking, to vibration, is the rapid release of energy in the process of earths crust caused vibration, generates seismic waves during a natural phenomenon. Earth jostling each other between plate and plate, plate edge and plate internal produce dislocation and fracture, is the main cause of ground vibration (earthquake).

Started happening earthquake site is called the source, the source is directly above the ground is called the epicenter. The devastating earthquake ground vibration called the magistoseismic area, the most strong place magistoseismic area that is often the epicenter area [2]. Earthquake often cause serious casualties, can cause fires, floods, poisonous gas leak, the proliferation of bacteria and radioactive substances, can also cause tsunamis, landslide, collapse, ground cracks and other secondary disasters.

4日中午12时25分，辽宁省营口市盖州市(北纬40.5度，东经122.4度)发生4.3级地震，震源深度6千米。沈阳、大连、鞍山、辽阳、本溪、抚顺、盘锦等多地的网友表示有震感。

地震又称地动、地振动，是地壳快速释放能量过程中造成振动，期间会产生地震波的一种自然现象。地球上板块与板块之间相互挤压碰撞，造成板块边沿及板块内部产生错动和破裂，是引起地面震动(即地震)的主要原因 。

地震开始发生的地点称为震源，震源正上方的地面称为震中。破坏性地震的地面振动最烈处称为极震区，极震区往往也就是震中所在的地区[2] 。地震常常造成严重人员伤亡，能引起火灾、水灾、有毒气体泄漏、细菌及放射性物质扩散，还可能造成海啸、滑坡、崩塌、地裂缝等次生灾害。

After 5.12 earthquake struck sichuan province since 2008, we, I was so frightened by an earthquake, I felt the earthquake many houses will be apart, can let many people lost their lives, is one of the worlds most terrible disaster. Today I saw "China childrens encyclopedia, really know anything about earthquake.

It turns out that the earthquake happened all of a sudden the vibration phenomenon, like the wind, rain, is a kind of common natural phenomena. Vibrations in the earth, in fact, very frequently, probably every 30 seconds there will be time, but most of them are very ease, people did not feel. We can feel the earthquake is due to the relative movement between earths tectonic plates, rock is squeezed, produce a huge amount of energy to make rock failure in an instant, or make originally the already existing fracture activity, suddenly release a large amount of energy, and some of the energy to the earths surface, make the earth trembling violently, causing strong earthquake. Started happening earthquake site is called the source, the source above the ground is called the epicenter, the ground of the devastating earthquake is the most strong place is called the magistoseismic area, while the magistoseismic area often is the place where the epicenter. When the earthquake occurred, the source of shock wave in the earths crust to all directions called seismic waves. Seismic waves hit the ground, the result will be a disaster.

We Chinese people are very smart, as early as the eastern han dynasty, there is a man named zhang heng scientists invented to measure the earthquake Hou Feng seismograph, and our modern scientists are generally measured the spread of seismic wave speed with the help of a seismograph, the place and time of the earthquake.

Know the earthquake knowledge, learning even before the earthquake early warning and self protection method, I think, to know that knowledge is very useful for our own.

自从2008年我们四川发生5.12大地震之后，我就特别害怕地震，我觉得地震会震垮很多房屋，会让许多人失去生命，是世界上最可怕的灾难。今天我看了《中国少年儿童百科全书》后，才真正知道地震是怎么回事。

原来，地震是突然间发生的大地震动现象，就像刮风、下雨一样，是一种很普遍的自然现象。地球上的震动实际上非常频繁，大概每30秒种就会有一次，但大多数都非常缓和，人们都没有感觉。我们能感觉到的地震是由于地球板块之间产生相对运动，岩石层受到严重挤压，产生巨大的能量使岩石在瞬间发生断裂，或者使原来已经存在的断裂突然活动，释放出大量能量，而其中一部分能量传到地球表面，使大地剧烈地颤动，从而引起强烈地震。地震开始发生的地点称为震源，震源上方的地面称为震中，破坏性地震的地面最烈处称为极震区，而极震区往往就是震中所在的地方。地震发生时，震源发出的在地壳中传向四面八方的冲击波称为地震波。地震波冲击到地面，就会引发灾难。

我们中国人非常聪明，早在东汉时期，就有一位叫张衡的科学家发明了用来观测地震的侯风地动仪，而我们现代的科学家也一般都借助地震仪来测量地震波的传播速度，判断地震发生的地点和时间。

知道了地震知识以后，还要学习地震发生前的提前预警和自我保护方法，我想，了解到这些知识对我们自己是非常有用的。

In fact, we have always cry from the earthquake that moment, we have always cry from the first to see the bodies of dead children the moment; In fact, we all cry together, to see tens of thousands of PLA personal danger and rushed to the disaster areas moment, but we have not cry, because there are too many disaster areas we need to rescue our compatriots, we need to help, we simply did not have time to cry, so we QianGREnleishui, comfort each other, we Another road, toward the disaster areas, where there is a need our help the brothers and sisters, we have to strong, we loudly told myself, now, we can not cry.

But today, three minutes, we cried, we cried the whole land of mountains and rivers touching it, over the entire Chinese nation and uniting the strength of the grief and indignation, we no longer need to suppress the sentiments in mind, no longer need to control in the past few days in Yanquan Dazhuan tears, street car on a collective whistle, sounding the alarm over the city, a city of Wu Yan, it is also crying, cry on Kuba, we have too many needs to suppress the release, cry on Kuba, We have too many depressing need venting, 3 minutes, we do not want to do what, we just cry, as we are brothers and sisters toward heaven, for those who are strong to survive the hand-foot-compatriots.

On this day, we all Chinese people, is a lifelong hard to forget the day, because today is the "national crisis," Sadness Wenchuan, the country Zhiai, we use such a way, to commemorate those in earthquake In the passing away of relatives, we used this as a way for them came in on the road toward heaven, I hope they can all the way走好， Yao Wang homeland when they look back at the earth, will see tens of thousands of their compatriots hand-foot - , Look up to the sky pray for them, so they will not be alone, not lonely,

The deceased have to, toward the heaven, where there will be no more disasters, there will be no more tears, but for those who survived the disaster in the compatriots, alive to become a challenge, let them in an instant disaster Separated from the experience of life and death, the mother and son have Qingshen, once the husband and wife Enai, the twinkling of an eye they are yin and yang, the two separated, disaster, not only their physical destruction, destruction of their soul, flesh wounds over time slowly healing, Can be the soul of grief, but not so far recovered pieces, post-quake reconstruction of their homes can, we can even build their homes more beautiful, but for us, more important is how to build their own spiritual home, how to ask The soul-deep scars.

Broken heart, tend to become very fragile, post-disaster reconstruction, the firm has become particularly important, three minutes after we wiped away tears, we can not Zaiku, to bravely live, because their relatives in heaven We watched, Tongbuyusheng, sad to tactic is not their wish to see, good to live in, they are to our expectations, think about this, it has the ruins to life for the life of the mother, "Dear Baby, if Can you live, to keep in mind that mother love you "; think that in order to save the expense of four children and teachers, we go to these family members, in their own lives to give us an opportunity to a live, To them, we have to live better.

Just as Premier Wen said the sentence, as you live, to live well, not only Premier Wens expectations, even tens of thousands of brothers and sisters of our expectations, think about all those days and nights in Disaster areas the army for help, from the ruins of their hand to you to save 1.1 points out of the broken hand, the bloodshed, they moved the hands of tile brick shift has not stopped, they run the risk of aftershocks at any time to And the death race, is to allow more people to live, so that the good live, not only for ourselves, but also to all the people we love, good living, is our responsibility as well as your Obligations.

May 12, 2008, let us all Chinese people always remember this day for it, our "national calamity," the history of the Chinese nation, engraved too many disasters, but never the candidate of our national glories , One of the disaster, and again before loading the line, then let us bury the grief of all good, clean up all the ruins, was once their homes on the land, rebuild our homes, to live boldly, to live On a good living.

May 12th is an ordinary day in 2008,it is in this day that shocking earthquake happened in Sichuan province,China.The earthquake destroyed nearly everything in Wenchuan country Sichuan province.It was terrible.We cant describle the scene what we saw with any words.Thousands of people were injured even died.And thousands of children became such unlucky ones who lost fathers or mothers ,they longed to have families to continue their lives .I am sympathetic to their fate !But I believed that we can fight against the fate and change it .For example ,there many people keeping living without food or water for about 100 hours during the earthquake!

What an unbelievable thing it is !their great spirits showed the powerful life vitality of humans!However,they must keep fighting against the death .Many schools were destroyed and there were many students and teachers who left us forever.Sadness,hoplessness and different kinds of danger spreaded out here and there !

But ,fortunately ,love is around us :the Communist party helps us ,the army helps us ,the people all over the world help us .They offer us with money ,goods ,love and so on !For example ,li lian ji,a warm-hearted man ,offered us with 20 million yuan !

With the help of the such a large love ,we will over come the damage of the earthquake and face our beautiful future !

2008年5月12日是一个平凡的一天,在这一天,令人震惊的地震发生在四川省,中国。汶川地震几乎毁了一切在中国四川省。这是可怕的。我们不能简述现场我们看到任何单词。成千上万的人受伤甚至死亡。和成千上万的儿童成为不幸的人失去了父亲或母亲,他们渴望有家庭继续他们的生活。我同情他们的命运!但是我相信我们可以对抗命运和改变它。例如,有很多人保持生活没有食物或水约100个小时在地震!

什么不可思议的事情啊!人类的伟大的心灵表现出强大的生命活力!然而,他们必须对抗死亡。许多学校被毁,有许多学生和老师永远离开了我们。悲伤、hoplessness和不同种类的危险到处传播出去!

但是,幸运的是,爱是在我们周围:共产党帮助我们,军队帮助我们,全世界的人都帮助我们。他们给我们钱,商品、爱等等!例如,李连,一个热心的人,给我们2000万元!

的帮助下如此大爱,我们将在地震的破坏,面对我们的美好未来!

Yesterday afternoon, when I was sitting in the classroom and listening to

the teacher. Suddenly, the screen seemed moving and it started to shake. My

teacher stopped his class and then he asked us to calm down. He let the students

who were close to the door left first, and then the rest of us ran out of the

classroom one by one. After a while, everything seemed to be normal, the teacher

asked us to go back to the classroom. Later I learned that there indeed came the

earthquake. I admired our teacher so much, in the important moment, he did not

run away, but considered us in the first place. He is a good teacher.

I was a child Aba, examinations of the Chengdu University of the Southwest University of Finance and Economics.

Yesterday afternoon, and I always like sitting in their dorm room, ready to classes on the afternoon of a sudden, a while obviously felt the shake, and then I immediately from the reaction, shouting out: "Earthquake!" With a female dormitory probably not Reaction from, surprised at me and asked: "What!" Voice soon, the bedroom floor, has been keen shaking up, because I live in the girls bedroom, fifth floor, and bedroom area of relatively large, so is feeling very strong, almost Standing instability, along with Weng Weng Sheng,…… cabinets on the table to start things out below, I thought…… quick collapse of the house!

I Benchu bedroom door, dormitory building came girls panic sounds……

My first reaction was running toilet, the toilet because of the relatively small frame, but from a sudden reaction. Our hostel is a collective toilet area than the bedroom are also some big panic, I do not know aisle in which the girls called out: "drilling under the table!" I reaction from immediately back bedroom with drilling on the computer under the table. Under the table, I immediately called her roommate also under the table, but she has disappeared, this time I only house one person, accompanied by a drastic shake, I looked at the table under the bed shaking and suddenly think: " I also do not want to die ah! "

This time seems to be shaking a little bit better, I go all out for his calm, that should not be very serious, and then outside the bedroom door, crying next to a friend, did not expect she disappeared……

Then I speed the return of dormitory, Nahao keys, bag, close the bedroom door, and then with the crowd Xialou.

This has shocked when drawing to a close.

Xialou run, all the girls dormitory below, friends and roommates are safe, my friend is to phone, but could not see me down, she was pleased. Later we went to the relative safety of the spacious, sunny square of the school started to discuss the issue of the earthquake, the phone completely unreasonable.

Friends said: "Mobile is not to say that in the Himalayas have signals on them……" She said she took Xialou the student cards Khan…… NDS has also brought me to see all the people Are playing out in the telephone, then perhaps more than telephones

Commissary of the phone cards are sold out

The bank teller who is also a long line of the team, although there are disturbing, but everyone together, let me feel at ease. Later, we take things back to the bedroom, she was wearing slippers, go back and change, did not expect the unit first arrived, the ground began to shake with the speed we end things, the withdrawal and return to the Sunshine Plaza! Friends and I Started discussions on the issue of earthquake!

We analyzed, Chengdu certainly not the epicenter, and then she said that the epicenter may Xichang side, I suddenly of a heart Jiling, which will not be the Aba side! Heart has begun unrest, a friend using a mobile phone Internet barely started to help me check the earthquake information……

This time the people have been found next to, to listen to him said: "Wenchuan!" Is Wenchuan! ! This扎the same name as the knife in my heart, Wenchuan! I GREw up in small places! My home! My mother is still there! I asked the person-the past, he said: "Wenchuan, 7.6 earthquake in Tangshan, and almost" the moment I have Meng, fell into the hands of the cups to the ground. Then I began to frantically phone, unreasonable……

Mother fighting to stop, could not use a landline, a cell phone……

At that time, I thought, I have to go back, I have to go back! !

Later, in the plane of the dial in Barkam, the father of the telephone, immediately feel at ease the minds of many, he has not news, but nothing……

I am anxious to spend in the afternoon to evening, the school issued an order to prohibit students back bedroom, so we all sleep in the square, we very good mentality, playing poker, playing computer, tents, mats blankets, food, We are ready to put a square in the audio, broadcast earthquake in the relevant circumstances

I can not under the heart, the only non-stop the call, and then ah! Then ah! Each time a busy tone I was disappointed on the one night I played no fewer than 100, the occasional-be: "I am sorry, you are temporarily unable to dial the phone connected!" Now every section of the news affects all of my Heart……

I have been praying in his heart, on God, must let my mother without incident, I Wenchuan in exchange for it, let my mother come in here! Wenchuan all the relatives, friends, Come on! You must be OK! Also my mother! Hope that we pray for them!

2008-05-215.12四川汶川地震一年祭 让我们一同悼念祈福

我是一个阿坝州的孩子，大学考中了成都的西南财经大学。

昨天下午，我和往常一样坐在寝室里，准备去上下午的课，突然，感觉到一阵明显的抖动，然后我立刻反应过来了，大叫一声：“地震!”同寝室一个女生大概还没反应过来，吃惊的看着我，问：“什么!”话音刚落，寝室楼已经剧烈的摇晃了起来，由于我住在女生寝室五楼，并且寝室面积比较大，于是感觉很是强烈，几乎站立不稳，伴随着翁翁声，……桌上柜子上的东西开始往下面掉;我心想……房子快塌了!

我奔出寝室门，寝室楼里传来女生们慌张的叫声……

我第一反应是跑厕所，因为厕所的间架结构比较小，但是突然反应过来。我们的宿舍是集体厕所的，面积比寝室还大正有些慌乱，不知道走道里哪个女生叫了一声：“钻桌子下!”我反应过来，立刻跑回寝室钻到了电脑桌下。下了桌子后，我立刻叫室友也下桌子，但是她已经不知去向，这时候房子里只剩下我一个人，伴随着剧烈的抖动，我在桌子下看着摇晃的床，突然想：“我还不想死啊!”

这时候摇晃似乎要好一点了，我拼命让自己冷静，说，应该不是很严重的，然后跑出寝室门，喊隔壁的好友，没想到她也不知去向……

然后我速度的返回寝室，拿好钥匙，包，关上寝室门，然后随着人群下楼。

这时候震动已经接近尾声。

跑下楼时候，女生寝室的所有人都在下面了，好友和室友都安全，好友正在给我电话，但是不通，看我下来，她很高兴。后来我们到了相对安全的宽敞地，学校的阳光广场开始讨论地震的问题，手机完全不通。

好友还说了一句：“移动不是说在喜马拉雅山上都有信号嘛……”她还说她下楼把学生证拿了汗……还把NDS也带上了我看到所有的人都掏出电话在打，然后公用电话也许多人····

小卖部的电话卡都卖完了··

银行取款的人也排成了长队，虽然有不安，但是和大家在一起，让我安心。后来我们又回了寝室拿东西，她穿的是拖鞋，回去换，没想到刚到寝室，地面又开始抖动·····我们速度拿完东西，撤离，回到阳光广场!我和好友开始讨论关于地震的问题!

我们分析得出，成都肯定不是震中，然后她说震中可能在西昌那边，我突然心中一个激灵，该不会是阿坝那边吧!心已经开始不安起来，好友用手机勉强上网开始帮我查地震的信息……

这时候旁边的人已经查到了··，听他说：“是汶川!”是汶川!!这三个字像尖刀一样扎在我心里，汶川!我从小长大的地方!我的家!我妈妈还在那里!我冲过去追问那人情况，他说：“汶川，7.6级大地震，和唐山差不多”那一刻我都懵了，手中的水杯掉到了地上。然后我开始疯狂的电话，不通……

给妈妈打，不停的，不通，用座机打，手机打……

我当时心想，我要回去，我要回去!!

后来，在座机里拨通了位于马尔康的爸爸的电话，心里顿时安心了许多，他也没消息，但是他没事……

我就在焦急中度过了下午，到了晚上，校方发出命令，禁止学生回寝室，于是大家都在广场露宿，大家心态很好，打扑克的，玩电脑的，帐篷的，席子毛毯，吃的，大家都有准备，广场中放了一个音响，在播放地震的相关情况··

我却无法安下心来，所作的只有不停的打电话，接啊!接啊!每一次忙音我心里就失望一次，那晚我打了不下上百次，偶尔的通都是：“对不起，您所拨打的电话暂时无法接通!”现在新闻消息的每一段都牵动着我的心……

我一直在心里祈祷，上天啊，一定要让我妈妈平安无事，把我换回汶川吧，让我妈妈到这里来!汶川的所有亲人们，朋友们，加油!你们一定会没事的!还有我的母亲!希望大家为他们祈祷!

关于“玉树地震最感动你的事件”(可用于四川雅安地震)

投票结果

No1: 选香港义工黄福荣废墟中舍命救人的占43%

NO2：选为恢复灾区供电，电力职工劳累过度因公殉职的占24%

NO3：选深圳街头卖艺老人两次捐款灾区的占20%

NO4：选全校无一人伤亡的“玉树最牛中学”复课的占13%

请根据以上提示，写一篇120词左右的英语短文，如是你本人，你会选择哪一项，并说明你选择的理由。

提示词：ruins(废墟);捐赠(donation)

A Strong earthquake hit YuShu and destroyed it seriously.Which event in YuShu do you think is the most moving?There is a survey about this recently.The results can be listed as follows.

43 percent of the people choose the event that HuangFurong who came from HongKong sacrificed his own life to save the students and teachers in ruins.24% support the electricity worker who died of overwork to restore the electricity supply owing to public service.20% are in favor of an old man who made a living by performing in the street in ShenZhen but donated his money to the disaster area twice.13% choose the event that the school at which nobody was injured in the earthquake resumed classes quickly and was called the proudest one.

Different people have different ideas.I will choose the event concerned with HuangFurong.It is my honor to introduce some backgrounds about him.He once participated in the rescue of WenChuan earthquake in 2008.He himself was not healthy enough.But he insisted on public service diligently without any payment for many years .Though not rich, he tried his best to help the people who need help,especially the poor.He was awarded the honorary citizen of HongKong after his death by Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.To spread his spirit,the young in Hong Kong form an organization named after him now.He is called Afu, according to Chinese custom and he will be remembered by all the Chinese people.In my view,Afu is a hero who can move me to tears .Only by learning from him and doing something to help others,can we make contributions to a better society.

At 14:28 on May 12, 2008, wenchuan earthquake! At that moment, earthquakes, countless people lost their homes in this sudden disaster, family. From TV and newspaper, I also learned that many like me are get ready for class in the school classrooms brother, sister, brother and sister, they are at the time of the earthquake, because no time to escape, be forever buried in the rubble, lost the life is like a flower. News, all people act to help for the people of disaster areas, some contributions, some unpaid blood donation, some also toured the disaster area to participate in the rescue. Everyone is trying to dedicate a love for the people in the disaster areas.

In our school, but also to develop the mourning and disaster relief activities. In May 2008 on May 21, 19 solstice, is the National Day of mourning, the school playground that flag also quietly be flown. At 14:28 on May 19, 2008, the entire school teachers and students to stand in silence for three minutes for the people of disaster areas the dead. Our school has carried out the donation activity. Under the call of the teacher, the students have their peacetime accumulated pocket money to the school. In class, the students in my hands, to deliver contributions to enthusiastically, 5 yuan, 10 yuan, 50 yuan, one hundred yuan, although money is not much, but every points on behalf of the classmates to the disaster area peoples love. Donation ceremony held in the school, the school classmate to stand on the playground, every class representative on donations, solemnly embodies the students love will be cast into the donation box.

At this moment, I believe that the people in the disaster area with the help of the people all over the country, must be able to stand up from the disaster, rebuild beautiful homeland.

2008年5月12日14时28分，汶川大地震!那一刻，山崩地裂，无数人在这突如其来的灾难中失去了家园、亲人。从电视和报纸上，我也得知许多与我一样正在学校教室中准备上课的哥哥姐姐、弟弟妹妹，他们在地震发生时，由于来不及逃生，被永远地埋在了废墟中，失去了如花的生命。消息传来，所有的人都行动起来，为灾区人民伸出援手，有的捐款捐物，有的无偿献血，有的还亲自奔赴灾区参加救援。大家都在尽力为灾区人民奉献一片爱心。

在我们学校，也开展了悼念和赈灾活动。2008年5月19日至5月21日，是全国哀悼日，学校操场上那面国旗也悄然降下半旗。2008年5月19日14时28分，全校师生为灾区死难人民默哀三分钟。我们学校还开展了捐款活动。在老师的号召下，同学们纷纷将自己平时积攒下来的零花钱带到了学校。在班级里，同学们踊跃地将捐款交到了老师手中，五元、十元、五十元、一百元，钱虽然不多，但每一分都代表了班上同学对灾区人民的爱心。在学校举行的捐款仪式上，全校同学肃立在操场上，各个班级都派出代表走上捐款台，庄严地将凝聚着同学们爱心的捐款投到捐款箱中。

这一刻，我相信灾区人民在全国人民的帮助下，一定能够从灾难中站起来，重建美好的家园。

Mobilize是一个平时不太常用的单词，但是此次四川地震灾难发生之后，全世界对于中国政府mobilize抗震救灾力量的效率给予了好评，我们也可以对mobilize有一个全新的认识与了解。在表示“废墟”的时候，英语中通常使用debris和rubble这两个单词。与地震相关的其他词语还包括地震的“震级”，“震中”，“地震强度”、“余震”等等，这些用英语怎么说?媒体是怎样报道的，让我们一起来学学!

2008年5月12日发生在四川西北部的特大地震及其惨重后果牵动了全体国人的心，媒体也迅速介入，在灾难发生后的第一时间，中央电视台启动24小时滚动直播。与此同时，西方媒体也纷纷迅速报道，而且大多惊叹中国政府的救灾效率，尤其是中国政府能在最短的时间内动员最大的人力投入救灾十分赞叹。

通过这些外媒的报道，我们也得到了一个通过新闻学习英语的良好机会，如果我们在积极关注地震灾难以及随后的可歌可泣抗争救灾行动的时候也注意通过英语媒体了解情况，我们就可以掌握一些地道的英语表达，丰富我们的语言应用能力。如美联社5月16日的一篇报道中有以下一段文字：China has mobilized 130,000 army and paramilitary troops to the disaster area, but the quake buckled roads and triggered mountain landslides, meaning that relief supplies and rescuers have struggled to reach the worst-hit areas.

Mobilize是一个平时不太常用的单词，但是此次四川地震灾难发生之后，全世界对于中国政府mobilize抗震救灾力量的效率给予了好评，我们也可以对mobilize有一个全新的认识与了解。中国政府此次动员的抗震救灾力量主要来自军警，上述文字中的paramilitary troops就是“准军事部队”的意思，也就是警察，包括武警。Paramilitary是西方国家通常用来表达警察和武警部队的英语词汇，在我国的汉英词典中，“武警”的译文通常是armed police，但这个表达远不如paramilitary在英语国家中用的普遍。中国政府此次出动的抗震救灾力量中除了军人之外还有大量武警、森林警察、消防警察和普通公安干警，这些警力在英语中可以统称为paramilitary troops。Buckled roads就是“阻挡道路”的意思，其中buckle这个单词在这里使用得十分生动形象，因为“阻挡道路”我们一般是表达为block road的，而buckle的意思是“使扭曲”，“使弯曲”，“使变形”，对于在汶川地震中毁坏的公路来说，buckle这个词显然是再形象不过的了，因为那里遭到毁坏的公路确实扭曲断裂变形了，这一点我们从电视上都看到了。triggered mountain landslides就是“引发山体滑坡”的意思，其中的mountain landslide就是“山体滑坡”的意思，slide属于美国英语用法，指的是(土、石、雪等的)崩落，崩塌。常见派生用法有landslide(山崩，滑坡，塌方)，mud slide就是“泥石流”。Trigger这个词用在这里也十分形象，因为它通常表示由于外来力量的作用而造成的某种后果。在美联社的另外一篇报道中，“引发”的英语对应词汇用的spark，其释义与trigger相似，如A strong aftershock sparked landslides near the epicenter of this weeks powerful earthquake Friday, burying vehicles and again cutting off ravaged areas of central China. 我们抗震救灾中所急需的各类“救灾物资”就是relief supplies。说到与“救”相关的词汇，我们的广大英语学习者往往会条件反射想到save这个英语单词，其实不然，在各种灾难救援行动中，rescue是一个更常用的词汇，下文的rescuers就是“救援人员”的意思，而“救援行动”本身在英语中就是relief。“救援人员”还可以表达为relief workers，如美联社的这篇报道中就提到了以下一句话：Relief workers said food, water and tents were urgently needed. 上文中的worst-hit areas指的就是此次地震灾害中受灾最严重的地区，比如说汶川，北川和青川等地。

此次汶川地震造成的严重后果之一就是大量人员、尤其是正在学校上学的孩子们被掩埋在建筑物坍塌之后的废墟之中，在表示“废墟”的时候，英语中通常使用debris和rubble这两个单词。如美联社的这篇报道提到：Rescuers saved a child from the debris of a school in the town of Beichuan 80 hours after the quake struck. They said they could hear weak calls for help from amid the rubble, Xinhua said.其中，debris所涵盖的范围比rubble更广泛，它可以泛指一切物体解体之后形成的碎片或者残骸，比如说飞机发生空难之后的残骸the debris of a plane，又如，The beach was littered with debris(海滩上到处都是残骸)。必须指出的是，debris是不可数名词。相对而言，rubble用在此次地震灾难的报道中就更加具有针对性，因为它表示(被毁的建筑物或墙壁)的碎石，碎砖，瓦砾，而汶川地震之后大量人员就是被掩埋在rubble之中的。Rubble同样也是不可数名词。此外，表示“倒塌的建筑物”时候，英语还经常使用ruin，它是可数名词，因此更经常使用ruins这个复数形式，其搭配介词是in。如美联社的这一报道说：Two girls held handsin the ruins of their school and swore to each other they would not give up hope, Xinhua said.又如，Elsewhere, rescuers were still finding survivors after being buried in rubble for 96 hours… 在词语搭配方面，除了ruin之外，rubble和debris的搭配介词也都是in，如buried in the rubble/debris就是“被掩埋在废墟/瓦砾之中”的意思。如果表达“被困”在废墟之中，那么，这时候的相应单词就是trap，其完整的词组表达就是英语被动式be trapped in the debris。如美联社的报道说： A Chinese state news agency says rescuers have pulled a student to safety afterbeing trapped for 80 hours in the debris of a school following this weeks massive earthquake.地震中的遇险人员在遭到掩埋之后必定会呼救，这时候的对应英语表达除了上文提到的call for help之外还可以是yell for help，如美联社报道说：Xinhua News Agency said Friday that rescuers could still hear weak yells for help from the collapsed building in Beichuan in the northern part of Sichuan and hope to rescue more students.

汶川大地震造成的灾难性后果之一就是许多学校的教学楼坍塌了，此次我国媒体报道的时候使用的词语叫做“垮塌”，在英语中，无论是坍塌还是垮塌，其实都是一个词，即collapse，既是名词，也是动词，还是美联社的同一篇报道中提到：In the town of Dujiangyan, a school collapse buried 900 students. In Wufu, nearly every building in the village withstood the quake but for a primary school, whose collapse killed some 300 students. 又如，美联社新闻说，Experts said hope was quickly fading for anyone still caught in the wreckage of homes, schools, offices and factories that collapsed in the magnitude-7.9 quake, the most powerful in three decades in quake-prone China.房屋collapse的后果就是被夷为平地，而英语中表示“夷为平地”的对应说法是flatten，如美联社报道说The magnitude 7.9 quake flattened houses, schools and offices the southwestern province of Sichuan. In Hanwang, the towns mostly older buildings were flattened or severely damaged by the quake.

此次地震造成大量人员不幸遇难，让我们无不为之揪心，但这又是无法回避的事实。为此，党中央和国务院紧急强调，在抗震救灾进入第二阶段之后，随着死亡人数的增加和气温的升高，震区防疫就成为工作重点。为严防灾区传染病流行，卫生部防疫队5月15日进驻灾区。这里提到的“防疫”就是epidemic prevention，其中的epidemic是“流行病”，“传染病”的意思，在这里指的是“疫情”。如美联社的这一报道说：There were concerns about epidemics if the dead were not soon buried or cremated. 这个句子中的cremate是人死亡之后进行火化处理的意思。为了更好地应对震区可能出现的疫情，卫生部下发了通知，美联社的报道说：The Ministry of Health issued a notice ordering bodies to be cleaned where they were found and buried as soon as possible, far from water sources and downwind from populated areas.

此次惨烈的大地震造成了数以万计的居民遇难，而且死亡人数还在不断攀升。天灾人祸中的死亡总数，英语中叫做death toll，如美联社报道说The emergency headquarters of the State Council, Chinas Cabinet, said the confirmed death toll had reached 19,509 — up more than 4,500 from the day before. The council said deaths could rise to 50,000, state media reported.上文的意思是，国家抗震救灾总指挥部宣布，截止5月15日，确认的死亡人数已达到19509人，但最终遇难人数可能上升到5万人。

地震造成的直接后果是无数人死伤和无数房屋建筑被毁，但是，地震还可能造成伴随而来的“次生灾害”，对此党中央和国务院十分重视，及时做出应对部署，以避免次生灾害对人民生命财产的再次损害。美联社报道说：Even though aftershocks had mostly abated, the risk of secondary damage remained. Chinas Ministry of Land and Resources warned heavy rains — forecast for the next few days — would likely set off new landslides in the mountainous disaster zone, where many workers were busy extracting victims and recovering bodies.上文中的secondary damage就是“次生灾害”，而aftershocks had mostly abated指的是余震已经减弱。 5月20日下午，中共中央政治局常委、国务院总理、国务院抗震救灾总指挥部总指挥温家宝主持召开总指挥部第11次会议时就强调切实做好受灾群众安置工作，防范次生灾害。

与地震相关的其他词语还包括地震的“震级”，“震中”，“地震强度”、“余震”等等，如美联社报道说，A major earthquake measuring 7.8 Richter Scale jolted Wenchuan County of Southwest Chinas Sichuan province at 2:28 p.m. on Monday.其中的measuring 7.8 Richter Scale就是“里氏7?8级”的意思，其中的measure还可以表达为register。A major earthquake of 7.8-magnitude shook Chinas Sichuan province on Monday, the US Geological Survey said. 其中的magnitude就是表示地震的强度。Roads to the epicenter were closed due to damage caused by the 7.8-magnitude quake, and the situation was making rescue efforts difficult even 48 hours after the deadly quake.这里的epicenter指的就是地震的“震中”，此次川西北大地震的震中就位于汶川县的映秀镇。又如，A strong aftershock sparked landslides near the epicenter of this weeks powerful earthquake Friday, burying vehicles and again cutting off ravaged areas of central China. Aftershock就是“余震”，上文已提及。而“地震”除了表达为earthquake及其缩略形式quake之外还可以说temblor，这是美国英语中用来表示“地震”的单词。此外，由于此次地震造成的伤亡后果十分惨重，因此在修饰性词汇方面，英语中用了多个不同单词，如massive/powerful/devastating/deadly/killer earthquake。

当然，与地震相关的词语表达还有很多，不可能在这里一一列举。在关注地震奉献爱心的时候，我们也可以通过阅读英语新闻报道来掌握一些英语词汇，丰富我们的语言表达能力，新闻媒介是当今日新月异的政治、经济、科技、文化和社会生活等各个层面活动的最佳表现渠道，语言便是其表现载体，因为语言是伴随着特定的政治、社会等环境而产生的，具有明显的社会性。