China has started construction of a monitoring network in seismically active regions in an effort to explore earthquake prediction, researchers said last Monday.
研究人员上周一表示，作为探索地震预报的举措，我国已经开始在地震活跃地区建设监测网络。
According to the plan, 2,000 monitoring stations will be built in two years in Sichuan and Yunnan, two quake-prone provinces in China, said scientists with the Institute of Care-life, a disaster-reduction lab based in Chengdu.
四川成都高新减灾研究所的科学家们表示，按照规划，我国将用两年时间在四川和云南两个地震多发省份建立2000个监测站。
Sensors installed at monitoring stations will collect data on underground stress and energy 8 to 20 kilometers below the surface of the earth, providing researchers with potential insights into earthquake forecasting, said Wang Tun, director of the institute.
该研究所的所长王暾表示，安装在监测站的传感器将收集在地表以下8至20公里处的应力和能量的数据，为研究人员提供对地震预测的潜在见解。

Following the construction of the network, researchers will continue to monitor the region for three years and expect to collect data on about 10 earthquakes in this period, based on the past frequency of earthquakes in the region.
在该网络建设之后，研究人员将继续对该地区进行为期三年的监测，并将根据该地区过去的地震频率，采集这一时期大约10次地震的数据。
The objective of the project is to successfully predict earthquakes whose epicenters are less than 20 km deep, researchers said.
研究人员称，该项目的目标是成功预测震源深度小于20公里的地震。
The first monitoring station was established in Wenchuan county in Sichuan, the epicenter of a devastating earthquake a decade ago.
第一个监测站是在四川省汶川县建设的，这是十年前发生的一场毁灭性地震的震中地区。