Study Warned of China Quake Risk Nearly a Year Ago
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- Hegelchong on 2008-05-21 - Tags no_tag
- Zmwang on 2008-05-19 - Tags quake , webinar
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Just ten months before a deadly earthquake struck Sichuan Province's Beichuan county on May 12, a scientific study warned that the Chinese region was ripe for a major quake.
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more than a decade
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"The faults are sufficiently long to sustain a strong ground-shaking earthquake, making them potentially serious sources of regional seismic hazard," the Chinese, European, and U.S. geoscientists wrote in the mid-July 2007 edition of the journal Tectonics.
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"Locked in a Journal"
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"We had certainly identified the potential of these active faults," Ellis said. "But that information was effectively locked in an academic journal."
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