火山喷发,照样旅游?
A basketball-sized lava bomb slammed through the roof of a tour boat near an active fissure of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano early Monday morning, showering the vessel with debris and injuring 23 people, according the Hawaii County Civil Defense Agency.
据夏威夷县民事防御局公布,周一清晨,在基拉韦厄火山的一次活跃中,一个篮球大小的熔岩炸弹击穿了一艘游艇的顶部,碎片如雨点般砸落到船上,有23人受伤。
Officials described the incident on Facebook writing that an explosion off the coast of Kapoho hurled several lava bombs onto the boat — called Hotspot — at about 6 a.m. local time.
官方在脸书上将此次事故描述如下,当地时间早上六点,卡波霍海岸边发生了一次爆发,抛出了几个熔岩炸弹—称为炸点—砸中了船。
"[Four] passengers taken by ambulance to the hospital, one seriously injured with a fractured femur.
Most other injuries were superficial," the post read.
“有四名伤者被救护车送到了医院,有一名重伤员大腿骨折。大部分人都是轻伤,”邮报报道说。
Hawaii News Now reported a woman in her 20s suffered the fractured femur and was in serious condition.
夏威夷新闻现在报道了一名20岁的女士大腿骨折,伤情严重。
The other wounded passengers were being treated for burns and scrapes.
其他的伤员们正接受烧伤和擦伤的治疗。
All were attended at Hilo Medical Center.
所有的伤员都在希罗医疗中心接受救治。
The boat is one of two owned by Lava Ocean Tours, a company whose website promises adventure seekers that they can "See, Hear & Feel the heat from your front row seat."
这艘船是熔岩海洋之旅公司的两艘游艇之一,该公司的网站向那些寻求冒险的游客们许诺说他们可以“坐在前排座位上,看到,听到和感受到热力。”
Despite the alarming events of Monday morning, an employee told us , that the company's owner and boat captain, Shane Turpin, had continued to lead other tours throughout the day.
尽管周一早上发生了意外事件,一名员工告诉我们,这个公司的老板以及船长,肖恩.图聘,那一天还是在继续带领其他的游客旅游。
Kilauea's ongoing volcanic eruption has swallowed up entire communities — an estimated 700 homes have been destroyed — and reshaped large swaths of the Big Island since May 3.
自五月三日以来,基拉韦厄火山持续的喷发已经吞没了一整个社区—约700所房屋被毁—并重新塑造了这座大岛的形状。
In fact, on Friday, geologists confirmed that lava flows entering the ocean from one of the most active fissures had started to form a small island off of Kapoho.
事实上,在周五时,地质学家们确认称从一处活跃的喷口裂缝处流入海洋的熔岩已经在卡波霍海岸外形成了一座新的小岛。
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