581 Cavities that appear in the ground
It's not that Leon has a big heart, Los Angeles, an unlucky city, is really in the earthquake zone.
It is also located in the world's largest seismic zone, the Pacific Rim Seismic Zone.
The Pacific Rim Seismic Zone is an area around the Pacific Ocean where earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are frequent, with a chain of trenches, archipelagos, and volcanoes, and plates moving violently. It is like a huge ring, distributed around the Pacific Ocean, along the east coast of the Pacific Ocean in North America to the south of Alaska, through the headquarters of Canada, California and the western region of Mexico, to Colombia, Peru and Chile in South America, and then turn west from Chile, through the Pacific Ocean to the east border of Oceania, turn north in the eastern sea of New Zealand, and then pass through Peiji, Indonesia, the Philippines, Taiwan Province of China, the Ryukyu Islands, the Japanese archipelago, the Kuril Islands, the Kamchatka Peninsula, The Aleutian Islands, back in Alaska, in Citigroup, circle the Pacific Ocean and also separate the continent from the ocean.
The earthquakes in this seismic zone account for about 80% of the total number of earthquakes in the world, and it concentrates more than 80% of the world's shallow earthquakes, 90% of the medium-source earthquakes, and almost all of the deep-source earthquakes......
The Los Angeles earthquake mentioned by Leon is one of the more famous earthquakes in this seismic zone.
At 4:31 a.m. on January 17, 1994, a magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck 35 kilometers northwest of Los Angeles, with the epicenter in the Northridge area of the San Fernando Valley, more than 200 kilometers northwest of the city center. When an earthquake strikes, most people are still asleep, and before they can react, disaster strikes. In the 30-second shock, more than 11,000 houses collapsed, highways and high-rise buildings within 30 kilometers of the epicenter were destroyed or collapsed, gas and water pipes burst, telecommunications were interrupted, and fires broke out, directly and indirectly causing 62 deaths, more than 9,000 injuries, 25,000 homelessness, and property damage of more than 200 billion US dollars.
Later, after experts simulated the seismic zone, it was found that the location of the earthquake was located in the San Andreas fault area, which runs through California. Due to the friction between the North American plate and the Pacific plate, this area has become an earthquake-prone zone in Citigroup's history. The 1906 earthquake that struck Los Angeles with a magnitude of 7.8 on the Richter scale was caused by the San Andreas Fault, which left the city in ruins and killed 3,000 people.
It is no exaggeration to say that from Los Angeles to Los Angeles, the number of earthquakes of magnitude 4.0 or higher occurs every year is about the same as that of Japan on the other side of the ocean, and it is definitely the most unstable area on the planet.
"It's a nice place, why is there always an earthquake...... I'm still thinking about buying a piece of land here, so I think I'd better forget it. Li Huan sighed, earthquakes, like typhoons and hurricanes, belong to the kind of irresistible things that human beings can't resist, so, for the sake of their own lives, it's okay to come and live in this place occasionally, as for settling down or living for a long time, then forget it, in case one day when he is no longer there, his parents encounter an earthquake at home and something happens, Li Huan can scold himself to death, after all, when a large-scale natural disaster comes, it doesn't matter if you are a cultivator or not, no cultivator wants to have a fluke mentality under the power of heaven.
Li Huan's thought had just been born, as if he was retaliating for Li Huan's desire to look down on Los Angeles, and the ground shook a few times, but like last time, it came and went quickly.
"You Citi people are really strong, you live in this kind of place every day, and your heart is still so big. Li Huan sighed.
"Hehe, we're used to this kind of small earthquake, it's good that Mr. wasn't scared. Li Ang seemed to be really used to earthquakes: "Okay, the earthquake has passed, sir, you go and rest, let's go order food for you." ”
"After the earthquake, there are still people who order food?" Li Huan was surprised.
"Of course, don't you eat after the earthquake?" asked Leon rhetorically.
What you say makes so much sense that I can't even refute it...... Li Huan opened his mouth, even Li Ang and the others were not afraid, so he had nothing to fear. Li Huan was about to return upstairs when he suddenly heard the voice of a bodyguard coming from behind the cliff villa: "Captain, what should I do with this swimming pool?"
"What's wrong with the pool?" asked Leon.
"We don't have to pay for this, right? The pool cracked a hole, and the water was gone......
A big hole in the swimming pool?
Several people were confused by this, even if it was an earthquake, but the magnitude of the earthquake was not big, and there was not even a crack in the wall of the house, how could it be possible to shake the swimming pool out of a big hole? The swimming pool was in the backyard, Li Huan came down from the second floor, and happened to meet Li Ang, who also went to the backyard, and both of them had inexplicable expressions on their faces.
Turning to the backyard, sure enough, the swimming pool full of clear water is now no longer water, and in the corner of the pool, a large hole with a diameter of about one and a half meters appeared, black and non-rumbling, like the open mouth of a demon.
"What's going on? Is the underground here empty? We're halfway up the mountain!" Li Huan looked at the big hole and asked with a look of disbelief.
Li Ang also looked confused: "It's hard to say, Los Angeles itself is a hilly area, and the geological structure here is very complicated, and no one can tell what the situation is underground." Maybe in this place where we are, there is a hole underground, and then this earthquake shook the upper layer of this hole, and then exposed the underground hole?"
Li Huan shook his head and said, "That's not right, there were often earthquakes before, why didn't you shake this place out of a big hole?"
This also asked Li Ang: "Although this villa has been built for many years, the swimming pool has only recently been built...... I haven't seen the pool when I've come before. Maybe this hole was originally at a balance point, and then suddenly there was an extra swimming pool, and under the weight of the pool, plus the earthquake, so it leaked all at once?"
Li Huan grinned: "You Citi people are really big-hearted, and you don't explore the underground in advance to build swimming pools? If there is another earthquake, will it shake the house?"
Li Huan is not talking nonsense, if this hollow collapses, it will really be a life-threatening thing.
"Let's change places and frighten you......" Li Ang also felt very embarrassed, and almost killed Li Huan.
"Captain, look at this hole, it seems to be very deep. The bodyguard who was the first to find the hole was still squatting next to the hole to watch, he picked up a small stone and threw it down, listening to the sound of the stone moving in it, and shouted: "The hole under this hole should not be big, but it should be quite deep, and this hole does not seem to go straight up and down, there seems to be something in the middle...... I heard the sound of metal clashing. ”
"Metal????," Li Huan's curiosity was aroused.
"It seems to be, but I can't see it clearly......" The bodyguard stretched his head and looked down, and he couldn't see what it looked like for a long time, he thought about it, and simply jumped off the pool, squatted next to the big hole, took out a lighter and lit it, and then threw it down.
"What's there?" asked Li Huan.
"Like...... It seems that six or seven meters below, there is a passage that leads to other directions. Find a strong flashlight, this flashlight is too weak to see clearly. ”
Someone immediately handed over a flashlight, and there were really a lot of bits and pieces on these professional bodyguards.
With the help of a strong flashlight, the man quickly figured out the situation inside: "This hole should not be naturally formed, it seems to have been dug artificially, and there is a passage six or seven meters below, where you can see the steps inside." ”
After a pause, the bodyguard continued: "You all come down, this hole should be very strong and there should be no holes. ”
Li Ang was the first to jump down, and after shining a flashlight on it, he suddenly realized: "No wonder the earthquake shook this place out of a hole, look at the traces of the hole, in fact, the bottom of the swimming pool and the top of the hole are only more than 20 centimeters of a layer of rock, this earthquake directly shook this layer of rock, and then under the pressure of the water, it became like this." ”
Since he was sure that it was safe below, Li Huan also jumped down. Through the reflection of the strong flashlight, it can really be clearly seen that there is an oblique downward passage six or seven meters below this cave, and the most important thing is that this oblique downward passage actually has steps. Seeing this scene, everyone's hearts couldn't help but move. It's a lie to say that you're not curious, anyone who sees this situation probably wants to figure out what's underneath, and no one will dig a big hole under their house for no reason, right?
"Legend has it that the naval officer intercepted a Japanese transport ship, and the things on board have never been found...... "Leon's eyes flashed: "Will this be ...... below?"
He didn't say that it was okay, but as soon as he said it, everyone's eyes were straight.
"Then what are you waiting for, let's go down and have a look!"
"This is the land of the state government, that is, the land of the ownerless, if there is really a treasure below, it will belong to us!"
"Go, go find the rope!"
Seeing everyone so excited, Li Huan was more rational, one was that he had eaten and seen it, and the other was that he knew the severity of the earthquake, and in the face of natural disasters, there was no difference between a qi refiner and a qi refiner, so even if he wanted to see what was below, he still kept his senses: "Let's wait a minute, in case the aftershocks come again, maybe we will all be buried in it!"
Everyone was right when they thought about it, and Li Ang commanded: "Leave one person here to guard, let's go and ask if there will be any aftershocks!"
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After discovering a secret passage, several people were extremely excited and returned to the house, Leon called the local seismic station to ask if there would be aftershocks, and the others began to prepare equipment to go down the cave. After making sure that there would be no aftershocks, everyone immediately got fully armed, weapons, lighting, and life support supplies were all ready, and then they got out of the big hole.
After a few people went down, they stepped on the step passage leading to the diagonal bottom, this step passage has two paths, one leads to the left, and the other goes straight down, Li Huan felt it a little and said: "The air is fine, this passage should be connected with the outside world, and you can feel the flow of air in it." Let's not go down yet, let's go in the other direction and see where this passage leads. ”
A bodyguard looked at Li Huan stunned: "Sir, how did you judge it?"
"Hehe, where do you think my gold and diamonds came from, I've been to more dangerous places than this, so I said I don't need your protection. Li Huan smiled faintly: "Okay, listen to me, but I want to say that although the treasure is good, life is more important." There really is treasure that we divide equally, if anyone has a crooked idea......"
Li Huan said, snatching a bodyguard's gun like lightning, and with a bend of his hands, a brand-new AR immediately turned into a U-shape.
Li Ang smashed his mouth and didn't speak, he had long known that Li Huan's ability was different from ordinary people, and the retired bodyguards of the Secret Service were dumbfounded, but these people are also well-informed, and they can handle it with such a huge fortune alone, and dare to wander around alone without bodyguards, where can they do without any skills?
"Don't worry, sir, we're not that kind of people. The crowd immediately replied in a tumultuous manner.
"Well, that's what I said, everyone has to work together. Li Huan smiled faintly: "Okay, let's go, I hope we have good luck this time." ”