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一场突如其来的热带气旋目前正在逼近澳大利亚西部沿海地区，气旋中心最大风速达每小时155英里（约合248公里）。
A tiny town known as "cyclone city" on Australia's remote northwest coast was being lashed by winds of up to 235 kmh (145 mph) late on Thursday as a severe tropicalcyclone slammed ashore from the Indian Ocean.

一场突如其来的热带气旋目前正在逼近澳大利亚西部沿海地区，气旋中心最大风速达每小时155英里（约合248公里）。

据路透社北京时间30日下午报道，在这个强热带风暴来临之前，澳大利亚西部沿海地区已经刮起了每小时62英里（约合99公里）的大风。当地官员透露说，由于突如其来的热带气旋，附近石油和天然气以及铁砂矿开采作业已经停止；预计这股热带气旋将在未来几小时之内到达位于澳洲西南海滨度假城市珀斯以北950英里（约合1520公里）的卡拉瑟市（Karratha）以及澳洲西部拥有1.2万人的毕尔巴拉（Pilbara）地区。受大风影响，居住于卡拉瑟市的约500名居民已经从29日夜开始撤出。但据当地部门官员透露，由于气旋目前已经非常接近上述地区，因此很多居民已经失去了撤离的最佳时间。未能撤离的居民纷纷开始对房屋，特别是门窗进行加固。

当地抢险部门预计，此次热带气旋带来的危害有可能接近10天前横扫澳大利亚东北部的气旋"拉里"以及去年8月给美国新奥尔良地区带来重大损失的"卡特里娜"飓风。为此，澳大利亚气象局已经向西部沿海居民发布了大浪警告。

（国际在线独家资讯 张海山）

A tiny town known as "cyclone city" on Australia's remote northwest coast was being lashed by winds of up to 235 kmh (145 mph) late on Thursday as a severe tropicalcyclone slammed ashore from the Indian Ocean.

Tropical cyclone Glenda, the second destructive storm to hit Australia in 10 days, had earlier forced the evacuation of hundreds of people in larger towns, shut down oil and gas rigs and disrupted iron ore shipments in the region.

Meteorologists said the eye of the cyclone passed over the town of Onslow, 1,390 km (860 miles) north of the Western Australia state capital of Perth, at 9 p.m. local time.

"It was really, really creepy. Before it was hammering down and we had winds gusting in ... and now it's absolutely dead still," one unidentified Onslow resident told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio.

The category four cyclone, one below the maximum grade, stalled briefly as it crossed the remote and sparsely populated coastline but was expected to resume moving southwest through the ruggedly beautiful Pilbara region.

"Residents of Onslow are warned that very destructive winds will soon resume without warning from a different direction," Australia's Bureau of Meteorology said in its latest cyclonewarning (www.bom.gov.au).

"Very destructive gusts to 235 kmh are expected near the cyclone center, and are occurring on the coast in the vicinity of Onslow," it said.

There were no immediate reports of damage from Onslow.

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