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Echoes of Wenchuan: magnitude 6.6 earthquake shakes Sichuan province in west China.

On Saturday morning local time (Friday evening for us in the USA), a magnitude 6.6 earthquake shook up Sichuan province in western China, about 35 km north of the closest city, Ya’an, and 115km west of the provincial capital Chengdu. … Continue reading

Categories: earthquakes, focal mechanisms, tectonics