Disaster Set Off by Colliding Land Masses
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 - 18:14
in Earth & Climate
As a result of a continuing collision between India and Asia, an upward thrust fault broke on Monday afternoon, generating an earthquake in the Sichuan Province of China.
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