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匈牙利紅泥災害 The red mud catastrophe in Hungary

2010年10月4日，大量有毒紅泥從匈牙利一家鋁廠廢水池涌向附近三個村莊，造成10人死亡，百人受傷。這些強堿性、有毒的紅泥覆蓋大約40平方公里的土地，對生態環境和經濟造成不可估量的損失。

On the 4th of October, 2010, hundreds of thousands cubic meters of toxic, virulent red mudpoured out from the containment pond of the Hungarian Aluminium Production and TradeCompany Ltd. next to the city of Ajka in Hungary. Because of a dam break the spilling sludgeof around 600-700 000 cubic meters (21-24 million cubic feet) inundated the lower sectionsof the villages of Kolontár, Devecser and Somlóvásárhely. Ten people were killed, and manyhundreds injured because of the mud, which flooded the half of the village Kolontár and thetwo-third of Devecser, up to two meters high in some places. The heavily alkaline, virulentindustrial waste was spread over around 40 square kilometres (15.5 square miles), causinginestimable ecological and economical damages.For 120 years the industry has been unable to deal with the by-product of the aluminaproduction, the red mud. The main problem is the highly alkaline pH: it is ten times as strongas raw bleach.

2010年10月4日，紅泥流突如其來。

On the 4th of October, 2010,the mudslide arrived without any warning.