Experts predict: In the next 4 years, the Great Flood may attack California, and may swallow Los Angeles

Jimu Journalist Li Lili Hu Xiuwen

According to a report by the United States Cable Television News Network on August 13, a study pointed out that climate change has doubled the possibility of California in the next four years. Great floods may cause $ 1 trillion in losses.

This is a new study of "Science Advances". The climate scientist of the University of California Los Angeles and the researcher Daniel Swin, who participated in this research, described the Great flood as "a very serious flood incident that occurred in a vast area, which may have a catastrophic impact on the affected areas." Floods are similar to floods that occur in San Louis and Kentucky this summer, but they are wider, such as attacking the entire California.

Mountain flood outbreak information map of California Death Valley

Experts said that large -scale floods will turn the low land of California into a "vast inland sea". Climate change is increasing the possibility of these disasters, making them more like occur every 25 to 50 years.

The author of the study pointed out that the most serious destruction will be the central valley of California. According to data from the US Geological Survey, the area of ​​the Central Valley is about the sum of the Fermont and Massachusetts, and produces a quarter of the food of the United States.

According to this study, a flood that is sufficient to fill this central valley may become the worst physical physical disaster to date, causing more than $ 1 trillion in economic losses, and destroying the state's low -lying areas, including Los Angeles and Olan Governing the county.

Hurricane Carterina is the worst disaster in the history of the United States, and the loss caused by the Great floods of California will be more than 5 times that of Hurricane Carterina. The overall economic loss caused by Hurricane Carterina may be as high as US $ 200 billion, becoming the largest hurricane in the history of the American history. It is also the US hurricane with the largest number of deaths since Oichichi Hurricane in 1928, and at least 1833 people were killed.

Studies have shown that the loss of such floods in California may exceed the loss caused by a earthquake.

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