Cars are buried in the debris of collapsed buildings in Dujiangyan, Sichuan Province, after an earthquake occurred May 12, 2008 in this picture distributed by China's official Xinhua News Agency.Dam may have caused deadly China earthquake
January 29, 2009
By Dan Vergano
USA Today Science Fair
China's deadly 2008 earthquake was triggered by rapid damming of a river, suggests a Science magazine report. The May earthquake killed about 80,000 people and, "the first researchers have gone public with evidence that stresses from water piled behind the new Zipingpu Dam may have triggered the failure of the nearby fault," reports the magazine.
Similar to a 1967 dam-triggered earthquake in India, several hundred million tons of water dammed behind the Zipingpu Dam pinpointed stresses on the nearby Beichuan fault, according to geophysical hazards researcher Christian Klose of Columbia University, tipping a waiting-to-happen quake into existence.
Further, a paper in last month’s issue of the Chinese journal Geology and Seismology concludes the damming “clearly affected local seismicity.” Lead author Lei Xinglin of the China Earthquake Administration in Beijing told Science that a firm conclusion is "premature", but he sees a reservoir decline between December 2007 and May 2008 as “major factors associated with the nucleation of the great Sichuan earthquake.”
Similar to a 1967 dam-triggered earthquake in India, several hundred million tons of water dammed behind the Zipingpu Dam pinpointed stresses on the nearby Beichuan fault, according to geophysical hazards researcher Christian Klose of Columbia University, tipping a waiting-to-happen quake into existence.
Further, a paper in last month’s issue of the Chinese journal Geology and Seismology concludes the damming “clearly affected local seismicity.” Lead author Lei Xinglin of the China Earthquake Administration in Beijing told Science that a firm conclusion is "premature", but he sees a reservoir decline between December 2007 and May 2008 as “major factors associated with the nucleation of the great Sichuan earthquake.”
6 comments:
Your dam has suffered many people in Mekong poor nations. You ignore the appeals for helps from those who have been suffering in their daily lives. Because you care only about your own. It is nothing that everybody can do with you as you are a super power in both military and economy. However, the miracle cannot be possibly denied. It might happen, and now surely happened. It was just a beginning, and more will be followed.
Dam may have cause earthquake? hahaha, LOL, hahaha, ROFLMAO, ....
WE need electricity. We must not depend on neighbouring Country to supply us electricity. So me must build dams.
I am for the safe Ecology but I am not and ECO-MANIAQUE.
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Oh shut the fuck up, Ah retard (12:48)? Is that all you know what to say for the last 30 years or so.
3:28pm! 12:48PM IS BETTER THAN YOU STUPID SHIT HEAD!
His curse cause ah Hok Landy to death! You and ah Hun Xen, next!!!!
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