At some point, said Ross s. Stein, a geophysicist with the geologicalsurvey, "the stress overwhelms that friction," and a rupture occurs.
到了某个点,“压力压倒了摩擦力,”进行这次地质勘察的地球物理学者Ross s . Stein说,然后断裂就产生了。
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"These are the only sensible statements any scientist could make at that point," says Susan Hough, a geophysicist at the us GeologicalSurvey in Pasadena, California.