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Hello and welcome.
Dia duit agus fáilte.
Today is Saturday, the eight of August, in the year two thousand and twenty.
Inniu an Satharn, an t-ocht Lúnasa, sa bhliain dhá mhíle agus fiche.
On August eigth, ten years ago to this day (in two thousand and ten), a deadly mudslide occured after persistent heavy rainfalls in Gansu, China caused a buildup of water at a major dam.
Ar an Lúnasa, deich mbliana ó shin go dtí an lá atá inniu ann (in dhá mhíle agus a deich), tharla mudslide marfach tar éis báistí troma leanúnacha i Gansu, an tSín ba chúis le buildup uisce ag damba mór.
When the dam broke, nearly two million cubic metres of mud and rocks surged through the town.
Nuair a bhris an damba, tháinig beagnach dhá mhilliún méadar ciúbach de láib agus de charraigeacha tríd an mbaile.
The mud covered more than three hundred low-rise homes and buried at least one village entirely.
Chlúdaigh an láib níos mó ná trí chéad teach íseal agus adhlacadh sráidbhaile amháin ar a laghad go hiomlán.
Over one thousand, four hundred people died as a result of the mudslide and close to three hundred remained missing, presumed dead.
Fuair níos mó ná míle, ceithre chéad duine bás mar thoradh ar an mionsamhlú agus d’fhan gar do thrí chéad ar iarraidh, toimhdeofar go raibh siad marbh.
The survivors were evacuated and given accomodation in school buildings.
Aslonnaíodh na marthanóirí agus tugadh cóiríocht dóibh i bhfoirgnimh scoile.
The mudslides were most likely a result of years of forest clearing, reducing the ability of the land to absorb so much water.
Is dóichí go raibh na mudslides mar thoradh ar bhlianta de ghlanadh foraoise, ag laghdú cumas na talún an oiread sin uisce a ionsú.
According to Gyurme Dorjes Tibet Handbook, the forest region of Zhugqu has, since the 1950s, shrunk by 30 percent and the reserve of timber reduced by 25 percent due to overfelling.
De réir Lámhleabhar Tibéid Gyurme Dorje, tá réigiún foraoise Zhugqu laghdaithe ó na 1950idí i leith, agus tá an cúlchiste adhmaid laghdaithe 25 faoin gcéad mar gheall ar ró-léamh.
The sand in the river water has increased by 60 percent, and the water volume has reduced by 8 percent, resulting in increased flooding and drought.
Tá méadú 60 faoin gcéad ar an ngaineamh in uisce na habhann, agus tá laghdú 8 faoin gcéad tagtha ar mhéid an uisce, agus tá tuilte agus triomach méadaithe dá bharr.
It was argued that the storm was due to a perfect storm of natural events, including soft, weathered rock, heavy rainfall and drought and the Sichuan earthquake two years before.
Áitíodh go raibh an stoirm mar gheall ar stoirm foirfe imeachtaí nádúrtha, lena n-áirítear carraig bhog, síondaite, báisteach throm agus triomach agus crith talún Sichuan dhá bhliain roimhe sin.