Mt. Shasta, Lassen Peak ready to erupt? Counties' plans provide no specifics on evacuations
By Ryan Sabalow
Record Searchlight
Posted December 17, 2011 at 9:52 p.m.
Translation by Autumnson Blog
The town of Mount Shasta lies within the destruction zone of Mt. Shasta should the volcano erupt. Geologists at the U.S. Geological Survey say there's a one in three or one in four chance Mt. Shasta could erupt in north state residents' lifetimes.
如果火山爆發，沙斯塔山的市鎮會坐落在沙斯塔山的破壞區。在美國地質調查局的地質學家說，北州居民命中有三分一或四分一機會可能看見沙斯塔山爆發。
While Shasta and Siskiyou counties' "hazard mitigation plans," drafted this fall, discuss the various risks associated with an eruption and identify key facilities at risk, the documents offer no specifics on how the counties would handle the mass evacuations of entire towns. They don't address how they'd cope with choking clouds of toxic gas and ash, highways buried in volcanic debris or lava flows and threats to power transmission lines or other mass infrastructure failures.
而沙斯塔和錫斯基尤縣今年秋天起草的“減災規劃”，討論了與火山噴發有關的各種風險和識別風險中的關鍵設施，文件並沒有提供細節縣將如何處理整體城鎮的大規模撤離。他們並沒解決他們會如何應對嗆人的有毒氣體和火山灰雲、埋在火山碎屑或熔岩流的公路、和輸電線路或其它大規模基礎設施故障的威脅。
Shasta County's plan has been approved by state officials, although it's awaiting clearance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Siskiyou County's plan, which remains open for public comment through the end of the month, is similarly short on specifics.
沙斯塔縣的計劃已被州官員批准，雖然它在等待來自聯邦應急管理署的許可證。錫斯基尤縣的計劃，仍然開放作公開徵求意見至月底，計劃同樣是欠缺細節。
Instead, the plans primarily rely on the assumption that federal geologists monitoring the volcanoes would give county officials plenty of warning, enough time for them to decide what to do.
相反，計劃主要是依賴監測火山的聯邦地質學家的假設，會給縣官員大量的警告，有足夠的時間給他們決定做什麼。
But volcanic experts caution that's not always a given.
但火山專家的警告，並不總是奉旨的。
For more please read:
http://www.redding.com/news/2011/dec/17/ready-to-erupt-counties-hazard-mitigation-plans/
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