Study Warned of China Quake Risk Nearly a Year Ago - The Diigo Meta page

• 21 May 08
  

  chong ip

  faults

• 19 May 08
  

  Zhiming Wang

  quake webinar

  • 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.
  • more than a decade
  • "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.
  • "Locked in a Journal"
  • "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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