Walls of water 10ft high in a month-long mega hurricane: California told to prepare for biblical 'ARkStorm'
By Daniel Bates
Last updated at 4:41 PM on 17th January 2011
Translation by Autumnson Blog
Scientists are now warning Californians that the long-awaited 'big one' earthquake could be the least of their environmental concerns.
科學家們現在警告，加州人期待已久的'大單'地震，可能是他們的環境關注中至少的。
Another more deadly threat awaits the West coast of America - in the form of a biblical ‘ARkStorm’, which could bring death and destruction on a scale never before seen.
另一場更死亡的威脅等待著美國西岸 - 以聖經'方舟風暴'的形式，它可能帶來前所未見規模的死亡和破壞。
Walls of water 10ft high, rain falling in feet instead of inches, and nine million people’s homes flooded during a hurricane-like megastorm that could last more than month.
10呎高的水牆、雨下在腳不以吋計，和900萬人民的家園被淹沒，在颶風般的大型風暴可能持續超過一個月。
Just the beginning: A truck and a house are buried waist level in mud after the torrential rains that soaked California in December. Scientists are warning of an even greater storm, the ARkStorm, which they say is long overdue祇是開始：一輛卡車和一所房子以腰部水平被埋在泥漿中，在12月浸泡加州的暴雨後。科學家們警告一甚至更大的方舟風暴，他們說在引頸以待
The every-other-century event last happened in 1861 and left the central valley of California impassable.
The cost was impossible to quantify - but should a similar event happen today the damage could total more than $300billion.
The U.S. Geological Survey has now begun planning for the return of the ARkStorm, so named after the boat Noah used to escape the flood in the Bible. The capped-up 'A' and 'R' stand for 'atmospheric river'.
They have recruited 17 researchers and a string of agencies to work with local emergency crews and government officials across California to ensure that should it arrive, they would be best prepared for it.
The team says that a storm on the scale of that which struck in 1861 is ‘inevitable’ and it was widely considered the worst and longest on record.
USGS chief ARkStorm scientist Lucy Jones said the weather system will start in the Tropics due to atmospheric rivers of moisture forming, grow larger and gain speed as it travels to the West coast of America where it would become roughly the same strength as a hurricane.
It would take some weeks to form, which would hopefully give them time to better prepare when it arrived.
A California golf course is flooded during the December storms. Scientists predict that up to nine million homes could be flooded in the ARkStorm加州一家高爾夫球場在十二月份的風暴被洪水淹沒，科學家預測多達900萬家庭可能在方舟風暴被淹沒
'We think this event happens once every 100 or 200 years or so, which puts it in the same category as our big San Andreas earthquakes,’ she said.
‘Floods are as much a part of our lives in California as earthquakes are. We are probably not going to be able to handle the biggest ones.’
Californians have a long history of coping with natural disasters, not least earthquakes as the state sits atop the San Andreas fault.
The most destructive earthquake to hit California was 7.9 on the Richter Scale in 1906, when more than 3,000 people died.
The 6.9 quake of 1989, also known as the World Series Earthquake, left 63 dead and nearly 4,000 injured but many more had their homes destroyed.
ARkStorm Scenario
方舟風暴場景
西元2009年07月14日
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1347725/Walls-water-10ft-high-month-long-megastorm--California-told-prepare-Biblical-ARkStorm.html
加州面臨百年一遇勁風
2011年01月18日(二)
美國地質勘探局最新研究指，加州可能面臨一百至二百年一遇的極級大風暴「ARkStorm」，長達一月的颶風將捲起三米巨浪，降雨量以呎計，預料九百萬人受災，殺傷力堪比由聖安德里斯斷層引起的大地震。加州對上一次「ARkStorm」發生於一八六一年十二月，持續四十五日，把整個薩克拉門托谷變成內陸海洋。 （綜合報道）
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