When water starts flowing over the top of the makeshift dam it quickly gives way, sending a flood racing hundreds of kilometers downstream— scouring the gorge and riverbed, and filling the earthquake fissures around the Lajia site with sediment.

当水开始流过临时大坝的顶部时， 它很快就让位了，洪水冲向下游数百公里——冲刷峡谷和河床， 并用沉积物填满喇家遗址周围的地震裂缝。