Earthquake response and a totally unexpected trembler - MIT Professor
From the New York Times article here:
and also an earlier comment from the article:
Today we also see that, unfortunately Dams have been affected!
Finally, an amazing amount of information is reaching every Chinese citizen with a TV (almost everyone in Shanghai, the shopkeepers often watch more TV than help their customers!!). The NY Times has a very interesting report that is up to date, many of my students have talked with me about the quake and YES, in the tall buildings people DID feel the quake!
The epicenter lay in the Longmen Shan, mountains that rise steeply to
the west of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan. B. Clark Burchfiel, a
professor of geology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
who performed research in the area, said that section of the Longmen
Shan fault would not have been expected to generate an earthquake of
that magnitude.
"It’s active, but I wouldn’t have put an earthquake that big on it,” he said.
"It’s active, but I wouldn’t have put an earthquake that big on it,” he said.
and also an earlier comment from the article:
India, once a giant island before crashing into the underside of Asia
about 40 million to 50 million years ago, continues to slide north at a
geologically quick pace of two inches a year. The tectonic stresses
push up the Himalaya Mountains and generate scores of earthquakes from
Afghanistan to China.
Today we also see that, unfortunately Dams have been affected!
Finally, an amazing amount of information is reaching every Chinese citizen with a TV (almost everyone in Shanghai, the shopkeepers often watch more TV than help their customers!!). The NY Times has a very interesting report that is up to date, many of my students have talked with me about the quake and YES, in the tall buildings people DID feel the quake!
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