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旁白：行星地球，45亿年前 NARRATOR: Planet Earth,four and a half billion years ago.
一个由宇宙物质相撞而形成的炙热球体…… A blazing sphere formed by colliding cosmic matter...
一个爆烈的世界，表面覆盖着熔岩的海洋 a violent world, covered by a sea of molten lava.
时光荏苒，熔岩冷却成坚硬的岩石地壳 Over time, the surface cooled into a rocky crust.
水蒸气上升形成巨大的云团 Great clouds of water vapor rose...
随后又凝结成大量的降雨，汇聚成一片浩瀚的海洋 then rained down,forming a vast ocean.
地壳发生断裂，形成了巨大且移动（漂移）着的版块 The crust fractured into huge, moving plates
这也就是后来形成的各片大陆 that shifted the emerging continents...
也就是我们所熟知的地表 producing the face of the planet we know.
但这些形成地球的力量现在依然主宰着地球 But the forces that created Earth still rule it.
地球周围覆盖着变化无常的大气层 Around the globe sweeps a volatile atmosphere...
而在其内部，一个炽烈的世界依然在燃烧 and within, a fiery world still burns.
漂浮在这半熔化的地幔之上 Floating on this semi-molten interior,
地壳的各个版块永远处于运动的状态 the plates of the crust are forever in motion.
只有在位于内部炙热核心与大气层之间一条狭窄的空间中 Only in a thin layer between the inner heat and the atmosphere
才能使生命得以诞生并欣欣向荣 could life arise and thrive...
然而它永远将处于这些来自大地深处伟大力量的怜悯之中 yet always at the mercy of these colossal forces...
然而它永远将处于这些来自大地深处伟大力量的怜悯之中 erupting from the depths...
震颤大地 shaking the solid ground...
从天而降 descending from the sky.
我们无法控制如此强大的力量 We cannot control such power.
但我们可以运用人类探索发现的力量 But we can use our human powers of invention and discovery--
来学习，来了解 to learn, to understand...
并生存下来 and to survive.
自然之力
世上依然有地方可以看到这些原始之力上演 There are places where primal forces are still on display,
那里岩浆从地球内部自由流出 where lava streams freely from the earth's interior.
但同样这些力量也会突然出现 让人猝不及防，毫无征兆，无法预知 Yet these same forces can also erupt suddenly, unpredictably...
并带来严重的后果 with terrible consequences.
数百年来，一座位于加勒比海的蒙特塞拉特岛 For hundreds of years, a volcano called Soufriere Hills
名为苏弗里耶的火山一直处于休眠状态 on the Caribbean island of Montserrat was dormant.
但在1995年，这里大约 12,000 名岛民 发现他们正生活在一枚定时炸弹上 But in 1995, some 12,000 islanders discovered they were living on a time bomb.
收音机广播： 目前事态正在逐步升级 RADlO ANNOUNCERS: The situation has escalated.
正有大片火山灰于当日上午8时许落下 This followed a major ash fall at just after 8:00 this morning.
专家们告诉我们已经无法保证能作出提前六小时的预警 The scientists have told us that they can no longer guarantee six hours notice.
所以接收到的数据都在进行准实时处理 All incoming data are being processed on a near real-time basis
因为火山可能在没有或几乎没有预警的情况下直接喷发 because the volcano can just go off with little or no warning.
（汽笛声） [siren]
（隆隆声） [rumbling]
旁白：死亡瀑布般的灰尘、气体还有熔岩 我们称之为火山灰流 NARRATOR: Deadly cascades of ash, gas, and lava rocks called pyroclastic flows
正以1000度的高温从山坡上倾斜而下 raced down the mountain at temperatures as hot as 1,000 degrees.
喷发还在继续，整个普利茅斯中心都被火山灰掩埋 The eruptions continued, burying the capital of Plymouth under ash,
但当时有时间疏散约4000名当地居民 but there was time to evacuate the population of about 4,000...
这里并没有人丧命 and no lives were lost here.
但在城市外面 Yet outside the city,
19人因忽视警告而被火山灰流夺去性命 pyroclastic flows killed 19 people who had ignored the warnings.
对于科学家来说，这个地方成为了一座活博物馆 For scientists, this place has become a kind of living laboratory.
在蒙特塞拉特岛的火山考察站 At the Montserrat Volcano Observatory,
Marie Edmonds 博士是来自英国的地质勘探队的一员 Dr. Marie Edmonds is part of a team from the British Geological Survey.
EDMONDS：我成为了一名火山学家 EDMONDS: l became a volcanologist
因为我们队这些危险的山知之甚少 because we know so little about these dangerous mountains...
我认为研究它们将意味着能对火山喷发作出更好的预测 and l saw that studying them could mean better forecasts of eruptions,
这可以挽救许多的生命 which could save many lives.
有时，我觉得火山几乎是有生命的 l sometimes feel like the volcano is almost a living thing.
它成长，呼吸，甚至还有着某种脉搏 lt grows, it breathes, it even has a kind of pulse.
我小时候曾幻想长大成为宇航员或是特工之类的人物 l grew up wanting to be an astronaut or a spy--
但在一座活火山边上生活，也是同样的兴奋 but living alongside an active volcano is just as exciting.
此时此刻，有预兆表明这座山正在酝酿着又一次大事发生 Right now, there are signs the mountain is building towards another big event .
我们感到身上扛着的责任重大 We feel a great weight of responsibility on our shoulders.
但是想要搞清楚地壳下面现在正发生什么样的情况 是很困难的 But it's difficult trying to figure out
但是想要搞清楚地壳下面是什么样的情况 是很困难的 what might be happening miles below in the crust of the earth.
蒙特塞拉特岛实际上是一个海底火山的顶端部分 Montserrat is actually the peak of an undersea volcano
这火山是由于两个大陆板块的相互挤压而形成 which was built up by a collision between two plates of the earth's crust.
更沉的版块会陷到另一块的下面 As the heavier plate plunges beneath the other,
下面巨大的热量和压力 将熔化该版块的边缘，形成岩浆 intense heat and pressures melt the leading edge into magma.
岩浆流入腔中，并向着地表越升越高 The magma rises into a chamber and then heads towards the surface.
如果能很快到达表面 它就能够形成足够多的气体并发生爆炸 lf it reaches the surface quickly, it can generate enough gas to explode.
这里每天都有规模较小的爆炸发生 Smaller explosions continued here,
在过去的几年中 and during the last couple of years
浓稠的岩浆已经在火山口上形成了一个500兆吨的山 thick magma has built a 500-megaton mountain above the vent--
一个巨大的熔岩穹丘 a huge lava dome.
我们相信有一天它会整个垮掉 We believe it will collapse,
而这还将引发更多的爆炸，甚至是更危险的火山灰流 and that it will trigger more explosions and potentially dangerous pyroclastic flows.
旁白：危险来临的第一个预兆就是 NARRATOR The first hint of danger comes
地震分析仪表明地震越来越密集 when seismic instruments show increasing swarms of earthquakes--
这是岩浆正在升高的迹象 还会在火山内部发出隆隆的声音 a sign that magma is rising, causing tremors within the volcano.
例行的监测承担一份新的紧急任务 Routine monitoring takes on a new urgency.
他们要去检查 Marie 设计的用于监测火山散发气体的仪器 They need to check the instruments designed by Marie
他们要去检查 Marie 设计的用于监测火山散发气体的仪器 that constantly monitor gases rising from the volcano.
EDMONDS：我们研究发现如果火山突然呼出更多的气体 EDMONDS: We've discovered that if the volcano suddenly exhales more gas,
这就意味着其活动陡然要发展到喷发的地步 it can mean that the activity is ramping up to an eruption.
所以，今天这个指标挺高 这个迹象挺让人担心的 So today the volume is up, and that's a worrisome sign.
接下来，我们要飞到尽可能接近火山口的地方 Next we have to fly as close as possible to the crater of the volcano
获取更多数据，并对目前的情况进行评估 to get more data and to evaluate the situation.
就是在这样的情况下 我们开展的研究会变得更有危险性 This is one of those times when the research we conduct is a bit risky...
尤其对于我的队友 Richard Herd 来说 especially for my partner Richard Herd.
他的任务之一，是架设激光反射仪 One of his jobs is to install a laser reflector,
它可以测量出毫米级的地表变形 which can measure even a few millimeters of ground deformation.
这就可以让我们判断出岩浆是否充满了下面的腔体 That can tell us if magma is filling the chamber below
并导致地表膨胀 and causing the ground to swell.
要不是绝对必要的情况 我们尽量地避免危险作业 We avoid dangerous situations unless it's absolutely necessary.
近几年来，许许多多的研究员因为突如其来的火山喷发而牺牲 Too many researchers have died in recent years because eruptions surprised them.
旁白：所有的证据都表明火山盖正变得越来越不稳定 NARRATOR: All of the evidence suggests that the dome is increasingly unstable.
坍塌看起来正在步步紧逼 The collapse seems imminent.
专家的警告终于说服政府部门开始进行疏散工作 Warnings from the scientists convince the government to begin evacuations.
在一个7月的晚上，终于发生了 On a July night, it happens.
（隆隆隆……） [rumbling]
猛烈的喷发造成的烟灰云直窜十英里（16km）高 Violent eruptions send ash clouds rocketing ten miles high.
（人们在唱《奇异恩典》（赞美诗）） [people singing Amazing Grace]
由于专家发出的警告，没有任何人丧命 Because of the warnings, not a single life is lost.
火山灰还是会时不时落下 但大多数人已经学会生活在这样的环境下了 Ash still falls occasionally, but most have learned to live with it.
EDMONDS：火山喷发后，通常会暂停一段时间 EDMONDS: Most likely the eruptions will pause for a while,
随后开始新一轮的喷发 then begin a new eruptive cycle.
随着我们持续监测火山 But as long as we continue to monitor the volcano,
只要我们可以不断揭示其中奥秘 as long as we continue to unravel its secrets,
蒙特赛拉特的人民就没有必要因此受伤或丧命 there's no reason for anyone else on Montserrat to be harmed or to lose their life...
而这，正是他们庆祝的原因 and that in itself is reason for celebration.
旁白：科学家们在蒙特赛拉特学到的东西 NARRATOR: What scientists learn in Montserrat
以帮助那些全球数以百万计生活在火山周围的人们 降低他们的危险 could help reduce risk for millions of people living near volcanoes around the world...
但世上还有另一种自然之力的产物 but there is another kind of event caused by forces below
更加难以预测 而且危险得多 that is even harder to predict, and far more dangerous.
这些地方中有一处最危险的 是土耳其人口分布最密集的一个区域 Among the places at greatest risk is a heavily populated part of Turkey,
那里两大地表版块在一条1000英里长的缝隙处交接 where shifting plates of Earth's crust meet along a 1,000-mile seam.
它被称之为“北安那托利亚断层” 它能制造出突然的大灾祸 lt's called the North Anatolian Fault, and it can produce a sudden catastrophe--
这是所有自然灾害中最惨绝人寰的一种 one of the deadliest of all natural disasters--
地震 an earthquake.
如果我们能分开这两个版块 lf we could pull the plates apart...
并从内部探下去 and descend within...
我们可以看到在10或15英里下方 we'd see that 10 or 15 miles down
版块下面会变成超级炙热、如面团般的石头 they begin turning into extremely hot, putty-like rock,
正朝着相反的方向发生摩擦 sliding in opposite directions
就在更下面半熔化的夹层之上 atop the semi-molten interior farther below.
断层中的某些地方 两个版块有彼此扣住 Somewhere along the fault, the plates lock together,
长时间以后就会在这里积累巨大的应力 and over long periods of time, enormous pressure builds.
最终这些扣住的部分会发生断裂、松动并彼此撕扯 Eventually they break loose and rip past one another,
释放出来的巨大能量波会直冲地表 unleashing powerful waves of energy that race through the crust,
颤动上方的地表 shaking the surface above.
（人们在吟诵） [man chanting]
就在这断层之上 Nearly atop the fault
坐落着世界上最美丽的城市之一 ——土耳其的伊斯坦布尔 lies one of the world's great cities-- lstanbul, Turkey--
整个有记录的历史都充满有关地震的记录 which has been jolted by earthquakes across recorded history.
在市中心，还有一座伟大的建筑 ln the heart of the city, one remarkable structure
历经14个世纪的地震而屹立不倒 has remained standing through 14 centuries of quakes...
索菲亚大教堂是人类艺术与建筑的不朽奇迹 The Hagia Sophia is an enduring marvel of art and architecture.
但对于一个人来说，它同样也是一座地质历史的宝库 But for one man, it's also a treasure-house of geologic history.
地质学家 Ross Stein 博士， Geophysicist Dr. Ross Stein has spent more than a decade
十余年来一直致力于土耳其地震的研究 studying earthquakes in Turkey,
试图寻找预测地震将在何时何地发生的方法 trying to find ways of forecasting when and where they will strike.
在这里，他找到了这个谜团关键部分 Here, he found a critical piece of the puzzle.
STElN：当我第一次意识到 STElN: When l first learned that since ancient times,
从远古时代，索菲亚大教堂的神职人员 都一直记录着他们地震后的修复工作 the clerics of Hagia Sophia kept records of their earthquake repairs,
我当时感到无比兴奋 l was tremendously excited.
因为这样一份关于地震数据及其破坏程度的编年史 Because with such a chronology of quake dates and damage--
结合其它相关资料 combined with other data--
我们或许能够从中找到帮助我们预测地震的规律 we might discover a pattern that could help us forecast quakes.
这样的发现，是每个科学家的梦想 Such a discovery is every scientist's dream.
某种意义上，（我）梦想成真了。 And in some ways it came true.
这些资料展示出过去60年间的11次主要地震 lt turned out that 11 major quakes in the last 60 years
都有向西面推进的大趋势 had occurred in a largely westward progression.
我不停地问自己这是为什么 And l kept asking myself why.
我们前往勘察地震现场 We went out to take a look at each quake site,
慢慢开始描绘出在板块扣住的地方 and we began to form an idea
应力是如何积累起来 about how built-up stress where the plates are locked
地震的时候突然发生相对运动 suddenly gets moved during an earthquake.
我们把数据输入到地震传递应力的计算机模型中去 We turned our data into a computer model of stress being transferred by a quake...
红色的部门显示出断层中应力增加的地方 with red showing where stress increased along the fault,
蓝色显示的是应力被释放掉的地方 and blue where stress was relieved.
突然，所有的谜团碎片被拼在了一起 Suddenly, the puzzle pieces fit together.
每一次地震中，应力并不是一下子就释放干净 With each quake, stress didn't just dissipate...
而是转移到断层下方，并再次聚集起来 but moved down the fault, where it concentrated again.
在大多数情况下，一场大地震会发生在应力集中的红色区域 And in most cases, a major quake struck in the red zone where stress had increased.
我们的模型指出下一次大地震 Our model suggested the next great quake
可能会袭击伊兹米特，一座人口超过二十万的城市 might strike Izmit, a city of more than 200,000 people.
旁白：于1999年8月17日，灾难确实降临了 NARRATOR: And on August 17, 1999, disaster did strike.
伊兹米特地震震级达到7.4级，并持续了45秒 The Izmit earthquake was a magnitude 7.4 and lasted 45 seconds--
对于经历这场地震的人们来说，一定永生难忘 an eternity to those who suffered through it.
（警笛） [sirens]
当地的新闻工作者捕捉到了当时的灾后现场 Local news crews captured the aftermath,
搜救队寻找着数以千计被埋在瓦砾之下的人们 as rescuers searched for thousands of people trapped under the rubble.
两万座建筑被毁 20,000 buildings were destroyed...
50万人无家可归 half a million people left homeless.
有人认为死亡人数达到25,000人 Some believe the death toll reached as high as 25,000.
而实际死亡人数将永远没有人知道 The real toll may never be known.
大部分的人员伤亡是由于不达标建筑（豆腐渣工程）造成的 The loss of life was caused in large part by substandard construction.
在很多地方 廉价搭建的现代房屋 ln many places, cheaply built modern structures
倒在毫发未伤的古代清真寺周围的废墟中 lay in ruins next to undamaged ancient mosques.
STElN：差不多就在地震来袭之后 STElN: Almost immediately after the quake hit,
国际救援队带着食品、药物、帐篷赶来 the international community arrived with food, medicine and shelters.
大多数居民还是选择了就地重建家园 most of the residents are choosing to rebuild in lzmit,
但如果我们要是没有好好汲取教训的话 but if the lessons we've learned here aren't acted upon,
他们的前途依旧不会乐观 their future is not bright.
我们所能做的最重要的事情 就是建造更加安全的房屋 The most important thing we can do is to build safer structures--
而且我们知道该怎么做 我们只是必须把这个作为优先的考量 and we know how-- we just have to make it a priority.
我想做的事情，就是就是提高 What l want to do is to improve our ability
我们预测地震何时何地会来的本领 to forecast when and where an earthquake will strike.
我们推算出现在应力已经到达 We calculate that stress has now reached a segment of the fault
马尔马拉海下面的一处断层 beneath the Sea of Marmara.
很遗憾的是，下一次大地震可能出现的地方 Sadly, this area where the next major quake is most likely...
是在伊斯坦布尔，这个拥有大约一千万人口的大城市，南面10英里 is just ten miles south of lstanbul, a vibrant city of some 10 million people.
为了在地震袭击前能给这几百万人发出预警 To give these millions of people a warning just before a major quake hits,
地震检波仪已经就位 seismometers have been placed
放在我们认为最可能发生（地壳）断裂的地方 near the fault segment we think is most likely to rupture.
警讯能在强烈的震波来临前 Warnings could reach lstanbul
10至20秒内传到伊斯坦布尔 a mere 10 to 20 seconds before the violent shaking waves arrive...
一丝希望就是能给人们争取到一点时间 and the hope is that people will have a few moments
把自己及其家人安置到安全的角落 to get themselves and their families to a safe spot.
几乎不可能说服人们说 lt's almost impossible to convince people
他们即将面临一场大地震 that they have a serious earthquake problem to contend with
除非他们得到一些让人印象深刻的警告标志 unless they get some kind of dramatic warning sign...
对于伊斯坦布尔来说 伊兹米特就是这样的一个警告 and for lstanbul, Izmit was that warning.
旁白：我们脚下的地震只是偶尔影响我们的生活 NARRATOR: The earthshaking forces beneath us interrupt life only occasionally,
但在我们头顶不断影响我们的 but unfolding constantly above us
同样也是自然之力的交汇 也就是我们所熟知的天气 is the clash of great forces we know as weather.
大气层中的气体流动能释放出毁灭性的力量 The fluid gases of the atmosphere can unleash devastating power.
这里是地球上最强烈风暴的家园 This is home of some of the most severe storms on Earth,
美国中西部的这个区域被称之于“龙卷风之谷” a Midwestern region of the United States known as Tornado Alley.
播音员：现在的情况非常适合一些爆炸性强暴风雨的形成 ANNOUNCER: Conditions are pretty favorable for some explosive thunderstorm development,
实际上，一部分已经开始了 in fact some of that's going on right now.
接下来将是风暴以及大冰雹预警 There's going to be a threat of severe thunderstorms, large hail.
风暴正不断增强 The storms continuing to intensify.
采取你的防风暴措施 Take your tornado precautions.
现在就去做 Do it now.
（玻璃被击碎） [glass breaking]
（警笛声） [sirens]
旁白：在1999年5月3日 NARRATOR: On May 3, 1999,
非同寻常的一系列龙卷风席卷了俄克拉荷马州 an extraordinary series of tornadoes ripped through Oklahoma
带来几乎令人无法想象的破坏 and left behind almost unimaginable destruction.
男声：我还记得2x4（的木栅之类）直接折断 MAN: As l remember 2x4s snapping.
它们就像牙签一样被折断，你知道我的意思么？ They just snapped like toothpicks, you know?
男声：你知道每个人都说那声音像什么吗？ MAN: Everybody says what do they sound like?
听起来就像是一列货运火车 lt sounded pretty much like a freight train.
但是你听的位置是从火车下面 But you are underneath the train.
男声：房子消失了 MAN: The house was gone.
而且我还没找到咱家的冰箱 And l haven't found the refrigerator yet.
男声：我朝街对面的房子望过去 MAN: l looked out across the street.
可你知道，街对面已经没有房子了 And l said, there's no houses across the street.
我可以一眼望到第四条街 l can see until Fourth Street.
旁白：许多生还者都及时得到了警告 NARRATOR: Many survivors were warned in time
某种程度上要感谢一只非传统的科学家团队 thanks in part to an unconventional team of scientists.
就是这样载有多普勒雷达的卡车 冒险接近1999年的风暴 lt was these Doppler-radar trucks, venturing close to the 1999 storms,
并记录下来有史以来近地表出现的最高风速 that clocked the fastest wind speed ever recorded near the ground--
——301英里（482公里）/小时 301 miles per hour.
Joshua Wurman 博士和他的团队每年会花上数月 追逐这些龙卷风 Dr. Joshua Wurman and his team spend months each year chasing tornadoes,
希望能拍到龙卷风内部的雷达影像 hoping to get a radar's-eye view inside them.
WURMAN：长久以来，我一直梦想着 WURMAN: For a long time, l've dreamed of solving
能够解开关于龙卷风最大的谜团 the biggest mystery about tornados--
——它们是如何形成的 how they're born.
我的目标是获得一个风速以及风暴内部风速的 三维立体图像 my goal is to get a three-dimensional picture
我的目标是获得一个风速以及风暴内部风速的 三维立体图像 of the wind speed and wind direction within the storm.
但，首先，我们必须先将我们的两辆卡车摆好位置 But first, we have to position our two trucks
成大致90度角摆在在风暴的两面 on different sides of a storm at roughly a 90-degree angle
而且就在台风形成的那个地方 and be in just the right place as the tornado begins.
我们并不知道龙卷风是如何开始的 We don't know exactly how a tornado starts...
但我们知道在此之前会发生什么 but we do know what precedes it.
这儿，从墨西哥湾来的暖流 Here, warm moist air from the Gulf of Mexico
急速向上穿过冷空气，形成了风暴 rushes upwards through cooler air, forming a thunderstorm.
一部分上升气流冷却下来，并开始下降 或是被雨点或冰雹拖下来 Some of the rising air cools and sinks, or is dragged down by rain and hail.
下方流动的暖流实际上会把高处的气流抬得更高 The warm air racing in at the bottom can actually push on the higherwinds aloft,
使之倾斜，并形成一个巨大的螺旋的柱体 sort of tilting them and forming a large spinning column.
不知怎么地，在下面靠近地表的区域 Somehow, down near the ground
在上升气流和下降气流之间 between the air rushing up and the air rushing down,
螺旋变得更加剧烈 the spinning dramatically intensifies.
最让我着迷的是 The thing that fascinates me
只有少数的一些风暴会形成龙卷风 is that only some storms spawn tornadoes.
如果我们能指出是哪些 我们就能更早地向人们发出警告 lf we could figure out which ones, we could warn people earlier.
这就是我们每年春季都会跋涉约一万英里的原因 That's why we drive about 10,000 miles every spring.
大多数的时候，我们错过了龙卷风 Most of the time we miss the tornadoes.
这非常难做到 我都试了好几年 lt's incredibly difficult. l've been trying for years.
男声：很明显，气象部门说这场风暴 MAN: Apparently the weather service is saying this storm
能够制造垒球 is capable of producing softballs--
我指的是直径4.5英寸（约110mm）的雹子 that's 4.5-inch hail.
我不知道我会不会去买一颗这样的“垒球” 但我想我会从中间穿过去 l don't know if l buy it, but l thought l'd pass that along.
NARRATOR，就在最近一个（风暴）季节靠近尾声的时候 NARRATOR: Near the end of one recent season,
这个团队得到一场可能会形成龙卷风的强风暴正在酝酿的消息 the team received word that a violent storm was developing--
这个团队得到一场可能会形成龙卷风的强风暴正在酝酿的消息 one that might spawn an outbreak of tornadoes.
挑战在于能否及时赶到那里 The challenge would be getting there in time.
男声：好嘞，两个单元看起来状态不错 都锁定了目标 MAN: OK, both cells look pretty good. Both have hooks on them.
西面的那一辆看起来锁定得更好一些 The western one looks like it has a better hook on it now.
旁白：这是他们经历过太多次的演练 NARRATOR: lt's a drill they've been through many times...
与挫折感作斗争 one fraught with frustrations.
空空如也的油箱 An empty gas tank...
饥肠辘辘 empty stomachs...
无法避免的消化不良 inevitable indigestion....
还有无法预知的拖延 and unpredictable delays.
（火车汽笛） [train horn blows]
这一天显得比平时更加多事 This day would prove even more eventful than usual.
男声：路肩比我想象得还要泥泞得多 MAN: The shoulders are a bit muddier than l expected.
当它向后滑的时候，我试过来回开一开 l tried to rock it back and forth and when it went backwards...
现在真是陷得死死的了 and is quite stuck.
旁白：风暴正向他们这儿过来 NARRATOR: The storm was coming right at them.
他们唯一所能做的事情，就是从泥泞中摆脱出来 All they had to do was get unstuck.
WURMAN：差不多就在我们的正西方（气流）开始旋转了 WURMAN: Rotation is just about due west of us.
差不多没怎么动，我的意思说 （距离）差不多还有5公里，或者是4.5公里 Still about, l would say, 5 kilometers, maybe 4 1/2.
现在气旋相对于你是个什么位置？ Where is the rotation relative to you?
男声：它正径直向我这边过来 MAN: lt's moving directly toward us.
没有什么理由好怕它，不是么？ There's no reason to panic on this, right?
WURMAN：嗯，现在还没到怕的时候 WURMAN: Uh, not yet.
（欢呼声） [cheering]
你解困了吗？ Are you unstuck?
男声：是，是，太棒了，我们解困了 MAN: Yes, yes, yes, unstuck.
WURmAN：好样的。我们现在看到下层的气旋正越来越强 WURmAN: OK, we're seeing increasing rotation at lower levels.
你同意吗？ Would you concur with this?
旁白：经过几年来不断的擦肩而过 NARRATOR: After years of near misses,
Josh Wurman 的团队终于站到了绝佳的观测位置上 Josh Wurman's team was in perfect position--
而且这场风暴还很是合作 and this storm was cooperating.
WURMAN: （呼叫）Curtis. WURMAN: Curtis.
CURTlS：预备 CURTlS: Stand By.
WURMAN: （呼叫）Curtis. WURMAN: Curtis.
CURTlS：我正看着呢 CURTlS: l'm looking at it.
我们终于找到了一个 现在正注视着它 We got one now. We're getting it right now.
旁白：有史以来第一次，团队成功了！ NARRATOR: For the first time ever, the team succeeded
两座多普勒雷达都记录了 in recording with two Doppler radars
在龙卷风形成的初期，风暴内部的情况 the conditions within a storm at the moment the tornado formed.
这些数据可能要花上数年进行分析 The data will take years to analyze,
但它肯定会帮助我们揭开龙卷风形成的神秘面纱 but it promises to help unravel the secret of how this tornado was born.
这是 Josh Wurman 和他的队伍的胜利 也是科学的胜利 lt was a victory for science, for Josh Wurman and his crew,
对于那些生活在这里的人们 因为这群科学家的努力，有一天他们的生活将变得更加安全 and for those whose lives will one day be safer because of their efforts.
WURMAN：作为科学家 我们渴望见证未知的事物 WURMAN: As scientists we yearn to witness the unknown...
看到那些他人从未看到的景象 to see things that have never been seen before.
几百年前，世上可能还有新的河流或是岛屿有待发现 Hundreds of years ago that would have been new rivers or new islands.
但对于我来说，未知就存在于这龙卷风之中 For me that unknown is the inside of a tornado.
EDMONDS：为破译像火山喷发这样威力巨大事件的奥秘而工作 EDMONDS: Working to decipher powerful events like a volcanic eruption
实际上是为人们树立标杆 is really searching for patterns that will alert us
可怕的灾难正在逼近 when something terrible is imminent,
这样，每条处于危险之中的性命都可以得到挽救 so that every human life at risk can be saved.
蒙特塞拉特岛上仅有19人无辜死去 但即便只有19人，也太多了 Only 19 people died here on Montserrat, but that's 19 too many.
STElN：好几百万人正生活在 STElN: Several hundred million people
世界上最为活跃的地震带上 live along the world's most active earthquake fault zones.
所以我们作出更好的地震预警将显得尤为重要 So it's critical we get better at forecasting quakes.
ARRATOR：如果还有其他科学家一起加入到我们的研究过程中 NARRATOR: lf these and other scientists can add a little bit to our understanding,
当有一天，所有的谜题碎块都拼在一起 then one day the pieces will fit together.
而我们有着这样的力量 And we have that power--
来探索，来学习，找到生存的方式 to explore, to learn, to find ways of surviving--
无论面前是怎样的艰难险阻 no matter how powerful the forces that confront us.
ALEX：好像往东北方向去了 ALEX: Seems to be going northeast now.
SEAN：嘿，给我拿个广角镜头 SEAN: Hey, get me a wide lens--
拿一个（焦距为）40mm或差不多的 get me the 40 or something.
ALEX：正继续向北，按照目前的轨迹看来 ALEX: Going increasingly north, continues at present path,
它可能会朝我们这边转过来 it will be rounding over towards us.
GREG：40 mm （的镜头）？ GREG: 40-millimeter?
SEAN：是啊 SEAN: Yeah.
（正抖动车门把手试图打开车门） [jiggling door handle]
SEAN：开锁啊，开锁啊，开锁啊 SEAN: Unlock, unlock, unlock.
快开门啊 Open it.
开锁啊！开锁啊！ Unlock it! Unlock!
GREG：从外面锁上了？ GREG: Locked out?
SEAN：是啊~~~~~~~~~~ SEAN: Yeah.