中国的地震发生得比以往多了？More Earthquakes Happened in China Than Before?

In recent years, Chinese people think thatthere are so many disasters happened in China, especially the earthquake. Thenewspapers is flooded with the reports about the big earthquakes such as thosehappened in Wen chuan,Ya’an, and Gan Su. Some people are becoming confused andasking: Did earthquakes happen more frequently than before? Why? Actually,China is always the most affected by earthquake in the world.

近几年，中国的人们认为中国发生了很多灾难，特别是地震。各大报纸充斥着关于许多大地震的报道，如发生在汶川，雅安，甘肃等地的地震。人们开始变得很困惑，地震比以前发生得更频繁了吗？为什么？实际上中国是世界上受地震危害最严重的国家。

The first reason why people deem moreearthquake disasters happened than the past is that they don’t familiar withgeography situations of their own country. The experts said that most Chinesepeople are not familiar with the truth that China is the one of the countriesmost affected by earthquake in the world. It is said that the in the westernregion of China the earthquake on the frequency and intensity is higher than inthe eastern region. The reason why people do not hear the news about westernregion’s earthquakes is that few people lived in these places and no one died.

人们认为地震发生得比过去多的第一个原因是中国人们对自己国家的地理情况不是很了解。据专家说大部分中国人都不知道这样一个事实，那就是中国是世界上地震灾害最严重的国家之一。据说在中国西部地震发生的频率和密度都比在中国东部的地震高。人们很少知道西部地区发生地震是因为那些地震发生在无人居住的地方，无人死亡。

The second reason is that the advancementof communication technology and people’s more attentions on the environmentalproblems. With the different kinds of exploitation and the destruction of theenvironment, more and more people become to notice that the earth has beenhotter and hotter, which the widely spread phenomenon--global warming--iswell-known for Chinese. So they begin to care about the relationship with thenature. Besides the advanced communication technology like the Internet, TV,and radio help the bad news about disaster spread all over the country and eventhe world. These reports about disaster flooded the newspaper, TV, and thewebsite, thus making people think there are so many earthquakes happened.

第二个原因是先进交流技术和人们对环境问题的关注。由于各种对环境的开采和破坏，越来越多的人们开始发现地球变得越来越热，人们也认识到了全球变暖这个普遍的温室现象。于是他们开始关心跟自然的关系。此外那些先进的交流技术如网络，电视和收音机都使得关于灾难的坏消息全国皆知，甚至传至世界。于是关于灾难的报道涌现在报纸，电视和网页上，这使得人们觉得地震变多了。

In a word, people have the wrongthought of more earthquakes happened in China than before is because the lackof knowledge on their country’s geography, and the misunderstanding made by theemerged overwhelming news.

总而言之，人们会有中国地震发生得比以前多的误解是因为对中国地理情况的不了解，以及由过多的地震报道导致的错解。