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A car is crushed amidst the rubble of a destroyed building after an earthquake in Dujiangyan City, Sichuan, China
Monday, May. 19, 2008

Open quoteWe had certainly identified the potential of these active faults. But that information was effectively locked in an academic journal. Close quote

  • MICHAEL ELLIS
  • of the Center for Earthquake Research and Information at the University of Memphis in Tennessee, co-author of a 2007 study that predicted the earthquake that killed as many as 50,000 in China's Sichuan Province
Photo: Claro Cortes IV / Reuters | Source: National Geographic