2020 年 1 月 1 日,除夕至新年期間,
印尼低地首都雅加達,發生自 1866 年,
共 154 年有記錄以來的最大暴雨,
甚至觸發近 7 年來「最大傷亡」的洪水。
雅加達及西爪哇山區出現破紀錄 377 毫米季候暴雨,
河水氾濫淹浸 169 個住宅區,近郊地區發生山泥傾瀉、
道路被淹浸成小河、有汽車被沖走,甚至有民眾在路上划艇,
市內部分地區水深達 2.5 米,多座房屋幾乎被淹沒,
有人坐在屋頂等候救援,逾 6.2 萬人疏散至臨時避難所。
事件造成超過 20 多人死亡,主要因山泥傾瀉、
遇溺及低溫症,亦有人在水浸街道上觸電而死。
國家抗災署發言人維博沃(Agus Wibowo)表示,
印尼當地已動員 12 萬名救援人員救災,
並在市內緊急加裝去水泵。
新聞片段:
It’s the worst flooding in Jakarta in almost seven years,
triggered by heavy monsoon rains
that lashed the Indonesian capital and
nearby cities on New Year’s Eve.
這是近七年來雅加達最嚴重的洪水,
季候暴雨造成今次洪水並在除夕夜,
沖擊印尼首都以及附近的城市。
The rain submerged homes, displacing thousands,
and claiming lives, including that of a 16-year old boy,
who died electrocuted by a power line.
雨水淹沒房屋,使數千人流離失所,造成人命傷亡,
當中包括一名 16 歲男孩,他被一條電纜電擊致死。
My son’s body had been covered with newspaper.
我兒子的遺體被報紙遮蓋,
My other children passed by,
and people asked them whether they knew the victim.
我的其他孩子路過,有人問他們是否認識受害者。
If they hadn’t walked by,
wouldn’t have known my son had been killed.
如果他們沒有經過,就不會知道我兒子遇害了。
To prevent further electrocutions,
Indonesian State Electricity Utility switched
off power to hundreds of waterlogged districts,
across Jakarta,home to about 30 million people.
為了防止再有觸電事件,
印尼國家電力公司關閉雅加達數百個水浸地區的電源,
當地人口約有三千萬。
At least 19,000 people have been
displaced in temporary shelters,
after floodwaters reached up to
three meters in several neighborhoods.
隨著有幾個地段的洪水達到 3 米高,
至少有 1.9 萬人遷入臨時避難所。
Jakarta International Airport was also shut down,
its runway flooded.
雅加達國際機場亦關閉,機場跑道被淹浸,
Authorities have deployed more
than 120,000 rescuers.
當局已部署超過 12 萬名救援人員。
Indonesia’s national disaster mitigation
agency has called on residents to leave
flood-hit areas and has warned that further
flooding is still expected with downpours
forecast for the coming days.
印尼的國家災難管理署呼籲居民離開受災地區,
並警告仍會有洪水來犯,未來幾天將有傾盆大雨,
The last flood of this magnitude in the
region dates back to January 2013,
when several dozen people were killed.
該地區上一次經歷大洪水是 2013 年 1 月,
當時導致數十人喪生。
國家災害管理局指,西爪哇省共 97 處洪水發生點,
其中,萬丹省(Banten)最為嚴重,
有數以千計房屋被洪水淹沒,數以千計牲畜失蹤。
雅加達省長阿尼斯稱,政府已設立臨時避難所,
安置了約 2 萬名無家可歸的災民,街上所見盡是泥濘與瓦礫、
翻覆的汽車,當局正努力清理水退後街上堆積的垃圾。
新聞片段:
This muddy splish-splosh is now
a familiar sound across Indonesia’s washout communities.
渾濁的濺水聲如今是,印尼被水沖蝕社區中熟悉的聲音,
After the worst flooding in six years hit
the Greater Jakarta area earlier this week,
the water levels have now started to recede.
六年以來最嚴重的洪水,今星期早前沖擊大雅加達區,
水位現已開始下降。
Things had been put back to the right way
up and back in their proper place.
百物各歸其位。
As a mammoth clean-up gets underway,
residents have all been taking stock.
隨著浩大的清理工程在進行,居民亦開始盤點損失。
I didn’t manage to leave with all of my possessions.
I lost the store that I run.
我未能夠帶走所有財產離開,我失去了我經營的店舖。
My house is still there but the windows and doors have gone.
我的房子仍在,但窗戶和門都被沖走了。
Here in Lebak, rescue teams have been using a dinghy,
and a length of rope to pull stranded residents to safety.
在勒巴克,救援人員以橡皮筏,和長繩將被困的居民救起。
Around a dozen locals in total are still unaccounted for,
after the record levels of rain hit the region on New
Year’s Eve and in the days that followed.
仍有約 12 人下落不明,破紀錄的降雨在跨年前後來襲。
Some 192,000 evacuees have been
forced to sleep in temporary accommodation,
but food and clean water there are running low,
and many worry about disease.
約 19.2 萬災民須在臨時庇護所暫住,
食物和乾淨水源短缺,很多人擔心患上疾病。
Thousands of soldiers and health
workers have fanned out to deliver
much needed medication and food supplies,
while the government has begun the
process of cloud seeding to the west of the capital,
where chemicals are sprayed from planes,
to induce rainfall away from populated areas.
數千名士兵和衛生人員四處向災民,
提供急需的藥品和食物,
同時當局在首都的西面進行人工降雨,
將化學噴劑從空中灑下,引導降雨離開人口稠密的地區。
洪水導致機場、鐵路、公路等交通設施大受影響,
雅加達哈利姆機場自 1 月 1 日零時 30 分臨時關閉後,
進港航班只能降落在鄰近機場,機場快運等多架列車停駛,
高速公路多個進出口封閉, 市區大量汽車被浸在水裡,
甚或被洪水沖走,全市大範圍停電,超市蔬菜及食品被搶購。
由於極端天氣持續,當地一間科技公司表示,
已準備好兩架小型飛機,以人工方式射鹽打散雨雲。
截至 1 月 7 日,印尼國家抗災署通報,
災害造成至少 67 人死亡,
是自 2013 年雅加達雨季造成 57 人被暴雨淹死後,
死亡人數最嚴重的一次洪水,超過 39 萬人流離失所。
雅加達周邊縣市陸續宣佈進入緊急狀態,連日救援,
已成功救出超過 1,700 多名「與世隔絕」數天的體弱村民,
但由於不少人遭山泥活埋仍未救出,
當局估計遇難人數仍會上升。
1 月 1 日,加拿大卑詩省迎來新年大暴雪,
氣象局指,強勁太平洋風暴逼近溫哥華,
各地持續有暴雨及暴雪,部分地區積雪,
已高至淹沒民眾窗戶。 卑詩水力電力(BC Hydro)系統,
早前於聖誕後的暴風雪中損毀,一度有 10 萬戶面臨斷電,
緊急搶修後恢復了 60%供電,但新年突如其來的暴雪,
再次導致 3.4 萬戶民眾停電, 雖然電力公司已加緊搶修,
但風雪堵塞道路,阻礙搶修進度。
新聞片段:
On the Coquihalla Highway close to the Summit,
near whiteout conditions.
在霍普附近的科奇哈拉公路上,
能見度接近零。
Thursday night.
星期四晚上。
You can see everywhere is snow everywhere.
你可以看到四周都是雪,
I can’t see the lines in the road.
It’s very bad condition right now. ...just the visibility is bad.
我無法看到道路上的行車線,
這是很糟糕的情況……就是能見度低。
But the traction seems to be okay.
但車輪的抓地力尚算良好,
But you just so slow going.
但你也只能慢慢駕駛。
Pounding snow and extremely poor
visibility make the drive treacherous.
大雪紛紛加上極低的能見度令車程變得危機四伏。
Near Merritt, there are several crashes
and numerous vehicles slide off the road.
梅里特附近,發生幾宗車輛撞擊和滑出路面的意外。
Rollovers, accident, multiple accidents,
basically everything.
翻車、事故、多宗意外,基本上所有事情。
Way people are driving on ice the snow,
the visibility, just gets nasty.
司機在冰上駕駛,大雪、能見度,都很惡劣。
At one point, after more than three-quarters of
a meter of snow has fallen, all three highways
to the interior are closed, and on highway one,
a rockslide comes down north of China Bar tunnel.
曾有一刻,降雪超過 75 厘米,
通往內部的三條高速公路均被關閉,
而在一號公路,更有岩石崩塌到中國吧隧道的北面。
The worst I’ve ever seen.
這是我見過最差的。
On the other side of the Coquihalla,
in hope, dozens of motorists wait it out.
在科奇哈拉的另一端,不少司機選擇等候,希望熬過。
氣象局警告,在風暴和強風下,
溫哥華預料持續降雪,最低溫度達到-13℃,
將迎來 25 厘米的降雪,
溫哥華北部和本拿比山等海拔較高的地區,
受影響最嚴重,大雪導致廣泛地區交通癱瘓及阻塞。
在極端的降雪天氣下,市政人員已進入了「作戰狀態」!
新聞片段:
When it came to traveling today,
TransLink had two words of advice for commuters: stay put.
當談到今天的出行時,
公共運輸公司 TransLink 對通勤者有個建議:待在原地
Our advice is to reconsider travel if that is possible.
可能的話,請重新考慮是否出行。
If people do have to travel, they should
try to consider whether off-peak periods are an option.
如果確實需要出行,應該考慮可否選擇非高峰時段。
Usually it takes like one and a half hour;
today it's almost like two hours, still going on.
通常需要一個半小時,今天差不多兩個小時了,還在繼續。
The next train wasn't due for more than
half an hour and it was quite slow.
下一趟車晚半個多小時,而且非常慢。
They were traveling slowly and it was very crowded.
車走得很慢,車上也很擁擠。
SkyTrains were delayed across the entire network.
整個網絡的空中列車都延誤了。
Tracks covered with snow and ice,
and doors frozen shut, forcing attendants
to come up with creative solutions to pry them open.
冰雪覆蓋了軌道,大門被冰封了,
迫使服務員想出創意的解決方案來撬開車門。
It doesn't get much more Canadian than
this unique tool and the transit
service wasn't afraid to ask passengers for help.
沒有比這個工具更具有加拿大特色的了,
交通服務部門也不怕向乘客求助。
If you do see a train trying to leave with its door open,
please try to get the door shut.
如果你看到一列火車試圖開著門離開,請試著把門關上。
It took about 20 minutes delay because
of the extreme severe weather.
由於天氣極端惡劣,延誤了大約 20 分鐘。
Elsewhere buses struggled to make it up hills
and across bridges.
在其他地方,公共汽車艱難地上行和通過橋樑。
On the way, I saw one of the 99s was stuck on Arbutus,
so the people from that bus got off and got on our bus.
在路上,我看到一輛 99 號公車困在 Arbutus 街,
所以乘客都下了車,上了我們的車。
Because the sidewalks have snow all over it,
the bus has to kinda be out on the street,
because there's no clear on the sidewalk for people to get off.
因為人行道上到處都是雪,公共汽車不得不在街上停下,
因為人行道上無法讓人下車。
And the ones that kept moving,
some of them were delayed as long as 90 minutes.
而那些一直在移動的公車,有些延遲了長達 90 分鐘。
Despite the challenges, many were still
determined to go about their business as normally as possible.
儘管面臨種種挑戰,許多人仍決心盡可能正常出行。
But snow continues to accumulate and so
TransLink is warning of more delays and closures to come.
但降雪仍在繼續,因此 TransLink 警報還會有更多延誤和關站。
They're asking travelers to check their
Twitter account and alerts website for the latest updates.
他們要求乘客查看 Twitter 賬戶和提醒網站,以獲得最新資訊。
2019 年 12 月 30 日,
俄羅斯北極圈城市諾里爾斯克(Norilsk)一輛巴士,
在漫天風雪下的公路上拋錨,當時,大雪風速高達每秒 27 米,
乘客雖嘗試關窗,但雪花仍從損壞了的窗吹進來,
車內 20 多名穿著連帽厚大衣的乘客,
在攝氏零下 26 度氣溫下,吹風近 40 分鐘,凍成「雪人」。
有網民留言指:這一輛應是全世界最凍的巴士。
另有諾里爾斯克市居民則半帶諷刺說:
「這就是我們市的巴士, 暖氣常壞、窗戶玻璃無影。
歡迎親臨感受一下。」
1 月 8 日,位於熱帶地區的印度北部,
在極端天氣下,竟然下起大雪,經歷自 1997 年以來,
最長、最嚴重的「寒冷天氣」,且已持續了半個多月,
喀什米爾、喜馬偕爾和北方邦等地區,
氣溫更一度降至零下 7 度。
強烈寒潮席捲印度北部大部分地區,
惡劣天氣導致幾趟開往德里的火車和
首都國際機場的航班大面積延誤,公交線路中斷和堵塞。
由於印度地區,極少有政府中央供應的暖氣,
許多準備不足的居民,需要匆忙購買保暖衣物,
多間零售商表示,即使加熱電器的價格已提高,
但每天一開門仍被一搶而空,大部分品牌都已售罄。
印度當地居民表示,希望這場寒潮可以儘快結束,
儘快回歸正常的生活。
1 月 13 日,遭強降雪侵襲的印度北部發生雪崩, 加上,
巴基斯坦控制的喀什米爾地區北端山谷(Neelum Valley)下大雨,
引發多處山泥傾瀉及雪崩,多名村民被困及失蹤,
部分恐怕已喪生,該省 7 處宣佈進入緊急狀態,
當局仍在搜救,並尋求軍隊協助救援。
連接巴基斯坦和阿富汗的主要公路,
受大雪影響而封閉,阻擋必需品的運送進度,
雪崩造成至少 57 人死亡,連同印度所控制的地區,
共錄得最少 67 人死亡,其中 5 名是士兵。
當局報告指,至少有 84 間房屋、17 間企業被完全摧毀,
另有一座清真寺部分被毀,至少有 100 人在屋裡被埋或被沖走。
1 月 10 日,美國南部遭颶風級別的狂風、
龍捲風及冰雹吹襲,4,000 萬人受影響。
其中,南部南卡羅來納州以北的克肖縣,
受一股時速達 209 公里的龍捲風吹襲,
一座校園設施遭嚴重破壞,
建築物幾乎被夷平,20 多輛校巴被波及。
新聞片段:
This gives you a sense of just how powerful
these storms are sweeping across Southeast America.
你能感覺到這些風暴是多麼強勁,席捲美國東南部。
Buildings have gone, trees ripped out, homes destroyed.
建築物、樹木和房屋被毀,
Winds in excess of a hundred miles per
hour leaving a trail of destruction,
and many families counting the cost of the damage caused.
風速超過每小時 100 英里,留下了破壞的痕跡,
許多家庭都在計算所造成的損失。
Devastated here, tree, houses gone.
這裡被毀了,樹、房子都不見了,
And I went checking on our neighbors,
and they were in houses, you know?
我到鄰居的家檢查,他們還在房子內,你知道嗎?
Is your family okay?
你家人還好嗎?
They are fine.
他們很好。
The storm took out the wall of this building
and the classroom roof of this school.
暴風雨刮倒了這座建築物的牆壁,
和這所學校的教室屋頂。
The wild weather resulting in tens of
thousands being without power,
and causing severe damage in several
US states including here in Texas.
惡劣天氣導致數萬人斷電,
在美國幾個州造成嚴重破壞,包括德州。
I was just astonished at what had happened.
我為此感到驚訝!
I mean, I didn't, I knew that it was loud
but I didn't know that it was this bad.
意思是,我不知道,我知道很吵,
但不知道有這麼糟糕。
And as the clear-up operation begins,
they'll be hoping conditions don't get any worse.
隨著清理行動開始,他們希望情況不會變得更糟。
But with major flooding now a growing
concern for many communities,
the ordeal for some may not be over yet.
但許多社區越來越擔心大洪水即將來到,
因此好些人仍要面臨考驗。
另外,德薩斯州約有 3.5 萬戶民眾停電,
當晚,達拉斯沃斯堡國際機場有 445 個航班取消,
另有 545 個航班延誤。
美國國家海洋和大氣管理局氣候預測中心警告:
數據顯示,俄克拉何馬州南部、
德州中東部等地均有惡劣天氣,
陣風風速預計可達一級颶風時速 129 公里,
並伴隨直徑大於 2.5 厘米的冰雹。
除上述地區,路易斯安那州、阿肯色州等地亦有狂風暴雨,
政府呼籲民眾留在家中,警告如非必要,切勿冒險出行。
新聞片段:
Wild weather tearing across the country,
leaving a trail of deadly destruction.
狂野天氣肆虐全國,造成致命的破壞,
Tornadoes and high winds slamming homes in Texas,
Louisiana, and Alabama as people were sleeping.
龍捲風和狂風在德州、路易斯安那州,
和阿拉巴馬州吹襲房屋,居民當時正在睡覺。
Winds so strong, an elderly couple’s
mobile home was pushed 200 feet off its foundation.
風大得把年長夫婦的流動房屋吹離地基 200 英尺。
Sadly, firefighters there in Louisiana
finding the bodies nearby.
不幸地,路易斯安那州消防員在附近發現了屍體,
More than half a dozen people across
three states were killed.
三個州分超過 6 人喪生。
Damaging winds, large hail and flooding,
and that snow in Dallas.
具破壞力的強風、大雹和洪水,達拉斯也有降雪,
Take a look, all part of a major storm
system sweeping the country.
看看風暴的所有元素席捲全國。
More than 80 million Americans at risk
tonight in that rough weather,
stretching from the Gulf Coast all the way to Maine.
今晚超過 8 千萬美國人受惡劣天氣威脅,
從墨西哥灣沿岸延伸到緬因州。
And this just in, two first responders killed on an icy highway.
最新消息,兩名急救人員在一條結冰的公路上喪生,
Tornado watches are still in effect right now.
龍捲風警報仍然生效。
ABC’s Kaylee Hartung, in Haughton, Louisiana
本台記者 Kaylee Hartung 在路易斯安那州霍頓
Where tornado tore through the
town in the middle of the night.
龍捲風在半夜肆虐該鎮,
Tonight deadly tornadoes striking the south,
as a massive storm system slams Texas to Maine,
killing more than half a dozen people.
今晚致命的龍捲風吹襲南部,
巨型風暴從德州橫掃到緬因州,
超過 6 人死亡。
More than 80 million people under weather alerts,
including tornadoes and powerful winds,
to snow and potential rain.
超過 80 萬人在氣候警報下,
包括龍捲風、強風、降雪和降雨。
Damaging winds knocking trees onto
cars ripping down power lines in Chicago.
具破壞力的強風吹倒樹木在車上,在芝加哥拉倒電線。
Heavy rains flooding streets.
More than 300,000 customers without
power across eights states.
暴雨使道路淹水,8 個州分超過 30 萬用戶斷電。
A possible tornado ripping through Pickens County,
Alabama, leaving at least three people dead.
龍捲風可能吹襲了亞拉巴馬州皮肯斯縣,
造成至少 3 人死亡。
An EF2 tornado shredding homes,
snapping giant trees like twigs in Bossier Parish, Louisiana.
EF2 級龍捲風撕碎房屋,使大樹斷枝,
這是路易斯安那州博西爾縣。
An elderly couple killed when their trailer
was ripped off its foundation here and flung 50 yards.
一對年長夫婦的活動房屋被吹離地基,拋起至 50 碼遠。
The tornado hitting in the middle of the night.
龍捲風在半夜來襲,
Police drone video showing the path of destruction.
警方無人機影片顯示破壞的路徑。
I didn’t think it was of this magnitude.,
to wake up and see the news this morning was really sad.
我沒想到是如此大的幅度,早上起床後看到這新聞,
真的很悲傷。
Wicked winds toppling this tree onto this home in Oil City,
killing one person inside.
強風吹倒這樹,砸中油城這所房屋,屋內一人死亡。
Authorities surveying the damage left behind.
當局仍在評估破壞。
And tragedy in Texas:
德州則發生悲劇。
After a one-two punch, a firefighter and police officer killed,
while working this crash on an icy interstate in Lubbock.
在左右猛擊下,一名消防員和一名警員死亡,
他們當時正在拉伯克,州際公路的車禍中執勤,路面結冰。
High winds tearing the canopy off this gas station in Houston.
在休斯敦,強風吹起油站的頂篷。
And just hours after the thunderstorms roared through,
snow started falling.
僅僅在雷暴來襲幾小時之後,就開始下雪了。
Drivers navigating slushy streets.
司機要在雪泥覆蓋的道路上滑行。
The Dallas Fort Worth area seeing its first
measurable snow for the first time in three years.
達拉斯沃斯堡地區的降雪量,是 3 年來首次達到可測量水平。
Dangerous weather all across the country,
危險的天氣在全國發生。
Kaylee Hartung joins us now from the scene in Haughton.
記者 Kaylee Hartung 在霍頓報道
And Kaylee, the tornado that you are
covering there hit overnight,
and you have been surveying the damage all day?
Kaylee,龍捲風在半夜來襲,你整天都在檢測其破壞?
That’s right Tom.
是的,Tom.。
An EF2 tornado tore this street apart.
EF2 級龍捲風撕破這道路,
A tree slicing this home behind me in half,
and just next door, this home spared from serious damage.
這棵樹把房屋分成了兩半,旁邊的房子就避開了災禍,
But every family here has work to do.
但這裡每個家庭都在忙著。
Folks here telling me, as soon as the sun came up,
they fired up their chainsaws and started helping each other,
clear the debris, and as the sun goes down,
you can still hear those chainsaws at work.
居民告訴我,太陽一升起,他們就開動電鋸,
互相幫忙,清理殘骸,即使太陽下山時,你仍聽到電鋸的聲音。
另一方面,1 月 10 日,日本北海道今個冬天降雪異常減少,
自去年 12 月,降雪量不到往年一半,
只有往年的 48%,創歷來新低,
是自 1961 年開始,有統計以來最少的一年。
沒錯!1961 年,正正就是日華牧師出生的年份,
反常天氣導致札幌市積雪量僅僅只有 9 厘米,
連 4 吋也沒有,較往年同期的 44 厘米大幅減少。
由於降雪不足,影響原定於 1 月 31 日,
每年一度的札幌雪祭,
往年,雪祭需要 3000 輛 10 噸重大貨車的雪量製作冰雕,
但今年札幌市內及近郊,均無法提供充份雪量,
因此,當局必須派出比往年多出一倍的貨車,
即 120 輛貨車,往 30 公里外的俱知安町及京極町等地取雪,
務求趕上製作冰雕,吸引旅客。
除了反常極端天氣之外,
1 月 3 日,美國阿拉斯加州阿留申群島(Aleutian Islands)上,
一座希沙爾丁火山(Shishaldin Volcano)爆發,
灰燼直衝高空逾 2 萬英尺,形成火山灰雲,
隨後,火山灰雲往東南方海面飄移。
美國國家氣象局發佈火山灰雲警戒,
警告高空 2.4 萬英尺的飛機注意安全。
1 月 12 日,菲律賓塔阿爾火山(Taal)爆發,
大量火山灰衝上 14 公里高空,
當局將方圓 17 公里範圍列為危險地帶,
因擔心再有災難級的爆發,要求 40 萬居民疏散。
大家確實沒有聽錯!是 40 萬居民需要緊急疏散。
目前已有超過 1.64 萬居民搬到臨時庇護所,
預計數目會繼續增加。
菲律賓火山地震研究所將塔阿爾火山的預警等級,
從 1 級提升至 4 級,僅次於最嚴重的 5 級,
代表「數小時至數天內可能會發生危險的爆發」。
當局警告,甚至可能引發「火山海嘯」,
提醒附近居民做好預防措施,防範火山周邊湖泊水位上漲。
新聞片段:
A rare sight. Volcanic lightning,
offering a glimpse at the thick plume filling the air.
罕見的景象,火山閃電,一縷厚厚的煙塵升到半空中,
Up to 10,000 people forced from their homes,
and low visibility and ash led to dozens of
cancellations at Manila's international airport.
一萬人被逼撤離家園,能見度低,加上灰塵,
使馬尼拉國際機場數十個航班取消。
Taal Volcano eruption has blasted steam,
ash and rock, covering area 15 kilometers away.
塔阿爾火山爆發,噴出蒸氣、灰塵和石塊,
覆蓋附近 15 公里的範圍。
This volcanologist says things could get much worse.
這火山,學家指情況可能會更為惡化。
If it continues, we could start to transition
into a puny magmatic so really just the
magma underneath that's driving this,
erupting out and sending much
larger volumes of ash into the air
如果持續下去,可能會噴出一縷縷的岩漿,
意思是驅使火,爆發的岩漿噴出,使更大量的灰塵湧到半空中。
Following the eruption several minor earthquakes,
with more expected.
火山爆發之後,發生了幾次輕微地震,預料將會有更多地震。
Nearly 60 kilometers south of Manila on the island of Luzon.
在呂宋島上的塔阿爾火山,位於馬尼拉南部約 60 公里外。
Taal is among two dozen active volcanoes
in the Philippines alone, and one of many
in the Pacific Ring of Fire,
but Taal has some distinctive characteristics.
是菲律賓 24 個活火山之一,
也是太平洋火環許多活火山之一,
但塔阿爾火山有其特別之處。
Almost like a Russian doll, we have a volcanic island,
which is just the tip of a volcano.
像俄羅斯娃娃一樣,它是一個火山島,並且只是一個火山頂。
Sitting within a huge lake about 25 by 30 kilometers,
and that lake itself is within a much bigger volcano,
what we call a caldera.
座落於 25 乘 30 公里的巨型湖泊之中,
而湖泊本身也是位於更巨型的火山之中,
我們稱之為巨火山口。
There are no reports of deaths or injuries,
but breathing in volcanic ash is dangerous,
so evacuees wear masks and goggles for safety.
現時沒有傷亡報告,
但吸入火山灰是危險的,因此群眾撤離時,
為了安全都戴上口罩及護目鏡。
當地官員擔心,持續噴發的蒸汽和火山灰,
或會重演 1754 年的災難,並持續數月,
甚至數年,當局預料最壞情況將會來臨。
顯然,踏入 2020 年後,全球極端天氣仍未有任何消減跡象,
單單 2020 年 1 月,全球大自然災難,
已不斷刷新過往十年的紀錄,
為整個《啟示錄》級數的災難揭開序幕。
Ref:錫安日報 2012 榮耀盼望 vol. 520 (20200126)
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