(Durham University) Up to 20 million people, thousands of whom are already displaced from their homes following the devastating Chinese earthquake, are at increased risk from flooding and major power shortages in the massive Sichuan Basin over the next few decades and possibly centuries.
Dr. Alex Densmore, a geographer from Durham University, makes the observations on returning from carrying out investigative fieldwork in the China earthquake zone.
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(Penn State) The May 12 earthquake that rocked Sichuan Province in China was the first there in recorded history and unexpected in its magnitude. |
