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19 May 08

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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- "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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The faults are sufficiently long to sustain a strong ground-shaking earthquake, making them potentially serious sources of regional seismic hazard
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- may represent a significant seismic hazard to the densely populated Sichuan Basin.

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