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ABC News reported that with the onset of the rainy season in California, a “giant marine storm” may begin, the consequences of which will be more dangerous than the usual earthquakes and wildfires on the US West Coast.
And the channel published an article saying that the torrential rains could continue in California for a whole month. In this case, the state will receive between three and six meters of rain, and the main cities in the region will fall under a five meter high layer of water.
The disaster will affect the cities of San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego and Sacramento, causing thousands of landslides, large dam ruptures, and agriculture will suffer enormous damage.
The author of the article described the scene by saying, “It may look like a scene from a catastrophic movie, but such a storm is not only possible, it actually happened.” He noted that “a very great storm” struck California in the winter of 1861-1862. It was marked by a record number of victims and destruction.
The article quoted seismologist Lucy Jones: “Floods flooded a quarter of California homes. They destroyed a third of California’s taxable land and the storm bankrupted the state.”
Climatologist Daniel Swain said the rains, which lasted for several weeks, flooded the center of the valley with water, causing the formation of an entire inland sea, 65 km wide and 240 km long.
According to him, the natural disaster killed one percent of California’s population, which at the time numbered 400,000.
Source: Novosti
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