MIT shows China quake was rare event
Monday, June 30, 2008 - 14:56
in Earth & Climate
A new analysis of the setting for last month's devastating earthquake in China by a team of geoscientists at MIT shows that the quake resulted from faults with little seismic activity. Similar events in that area occur only once in every 2,000 to 10,000 years.
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