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En la base centelleaba el hielo, que parecía una mera corteza sobre agua líquida.
In its base ice glinted, looking as if it was a crust over liquid water.
–Se refiere a un desplazamiento de la corteza sobre el núcleo interior más que a un cambio en el campo electromagnético terrestre. –Precisamente.
You're talking about actual movement of the crust over the inner core rather than a change in the earth's electromagnetic field.
Un terremoto fuerte —escribe— destruye de golpe nuestras asociaciones más arraigadas: la tierra, emblema mismo de la solidez, se ha movido bajo nuestros pies como una fina corteza sobre un fluido;
'A bad earthquake,' he writes, 'at once destroys our oldest associations: the earth, the very emblem of solidity, has moved beneath our feet like a thin crust over a fluid;
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