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Dam's possible role in Sichuan quake is studied [1]

BEIJING: Pressure from a dam, its reservoir's heavy waters weighing on geologic fault lines, may have helped trigger China's devastating earthquake last May, some scientists say, in a finding that suggests human activity played a role in the disaster.

Publication Date: 
06/02/2009
International Herald Tribune (Bangkok) [2]
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Dams [3], Earthquakes [4], Scientists [5], China [6]
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