The devastating earthquake in China was rare and unexpected
Tuesday, July 1, 2008 - 09:21
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, and that similar events in that area occur only once in every 2,000 to 10,000 years, on average...
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