Thus, the Indus and other rivers were already swollen with water in the north by the time the supercell of rains from east and west merged above them.

因此，当来自东部和西部的造成降雨的超级晶核（水汽凝结形成雨水——译者注）融入其中，北部的印度和及其它河流已经涨满水了。

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Shallow water to the west-southwest (below the island in this view) appears bright blue, in contrast to the deeper ocean waters to the north, east, and south.

岛屿西部和西南部的浅海区(图中岛屿下侧)呈现出浅蓝色，与岛屿南、北、东方向的深海水域颜色对比明显。

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Southern California gets its water from the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the Colorado River Basin, which are hundreds of miles to the north and west, respectively.

南加州的水源来自北边的内华达山脉（Sierra Ncvada Mountain）和西边的科罗拉多河流域（Colorado River Basin），都有数百英里远。

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The Chevron-operated Rosebank project is located approximately 130km (80 miles) north west of the Shetland Islands, in water depths of approximately 1, 100m (3, 700 ft).

BBC: Chevron begins designs for drilling west of Shetland

While Sandy visited devastation on the East Coast, principally New Jersey and New York, it created wind gusts as far west as Wisconsin and as far north as Canada and caused water levels to rise from Florida to Maine, the center found.

WSJ: Report: Sandy was USA's 2nd-costliest hurricane

That said, many of the newly identified deposits are located in the central North Sea or to the west of Scotland, and will require deep-water drilling which is expensive.

FORBES: North Sea Oil and Gas may Provide One Third of Britain's Energy by 2020.