地震公园
——1964年3月27日阿拉斯加大地震,特纳根高地滑坡区遗迹
文/和平岛
令白杨树
眼珠子睁到拳头那么大
也收不拢
石化的伤疤:
黑色星期五——
浓密的杨树林
也没修复完
陡壁下
高低错落的山丘
根据解说牌
这是板块运动
和土壤力学造成
晚更新世冰川-河口-海洋黏土岩层
持续四分半钟的高频地震
中间的砂质富水透镜体
迅速液态化
导致厚达一百五十英尺的黏土岩层
断裂,塌滑
下沉的楔形土块是地堑
直立的大块土体是地垒
滑行两千英尺
陷落库克湾
黝黑的泥滩
眼睛所看不到的,是
大洋板块
至今还在俯冲
持续积累的应力
和地幔更深处
液态中的软流圈
大陆与大洋板块
各异的地垒和地堑
像皮划艇
漂浮着
滑行
偶尔,也会打颤
想想,也会兴奋
活着的星球,活着的我
有一个液态化中的硬块,砰然跳动
Earthquake Park
——Vestige of the Turnagain Heights Landslide, the Great Alaska Earthquake of March 27, 1964
By He Ping Dao
Even if the aspen trees
widened their eyes as large as fists,
they could never close
these petrified scars:
Black Friday—
The dense forest
has yet to fully heal
the undulating hills and ridges,
strewn beneath the steep scarp.
According to the interpretive sign,
this was the work of plate tectonics
and soil mechanics.
The Late Pleistocene glacial-estuarine-marine clay,
and four and a half minutes of high-frequency shaking.
The water-rich sandy lenses trapped within
instantly liquefied,
causing the clay strata, one hundred and fifty feet thick,
to fracture and slump.
The dropped, wedge-shaped blocks are grabens;
The upright, massive soils are horsts.
Sliding two thousand feet,
they trapped themselves into the dark mudflats
of Cook Inlet.
What remains unseen to the eye is
The oceanic plate,
still subducting to this day,
perpetually storing its strain.
And deeper within the mantle,
the fluid asthenosphere
in its liquid state.
Continental and oceanic plates,
each with their own horsts and grabens,
Like kayaks,
floating,
gliding.
Occasionally, a tremor runs through;
To think of it, a surge of excitement.
A living planet, a living me.
Deep inside, a solid core amid the liquefaction,
thump-thump, violently beats.
原稿:
阿拉斯加湾海岸
一排排白杨树
脸色惨白
双手垂立
一只只眼球瞪到了最大处
眼皮几乎要撑爆开来
就再也没有合拢。
我手掌震开的
是层层封印于年轮之内的地震波
浓缩为一种超乎寻常的能量种子
哧溜一声钻入我的体内,脑子
一股撕心裂肺的剧痛
和巨量的信息
经由我大脑中央处理器的信息转换
清晰地自两眼投影出来——
长眠于此
是安克雷奇在1964年3月27日
下午5:36的躯壳,残肢,断臂。
丢失的一只脚丫子
45秒之后,出现在西南边127英里的不冻港Seward
30英尺的浪尖,爆炸的油库
连同40辆铁路油罐车
的汽油燃烧起来的火海;
另一只脚丫子
是东南边沉陷的Valdez港口镇
一连串的海底断裂和滑坡
推起40英尺高的滔天巨浪——
这是地震引发的海啸
残留在白杨树植物细胞之内
释放出来的能量
一下子将我震得粉身碎骨。
这里是阿拉斯加大地震的
遗迹公园
无数生灵的坟场
也是我的









