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2008 Sichuan Earthquake Likely Man-Made
- rplnt 14y ago> The Chinese earthquake that killed 80,000 people in May of 2008 most likely was not an act of God, a study released today has found. I can understand that for some strange reason is the phrase "act of God" in the USA law system (it is, right?). But why is it in a scientific paper?
- linohh 14y agoThe paper itself does not contain the word 'god' at all.
- rplnt 14y agoAh, OK, I thought it was a citation. It certainly looked so with that styling.
- samuel_wade 14y agoIt's from the press release, not the paper itself.
- snake_plissken 14y agoit's not meant to be taken literally, it's one of many phrases to describe long tail events
- yread 14y agoSpeculation on this area apparently isn't new http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/4434400/Chinese-earthquake-may-have-been-man-made-say-scientists.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/4434400... [2009]. Very interesting I haven't heard of that before, it's possible, it seems http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservoir-induced_seismicity#Reservoirs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservoir-induced_seismicity#Re...
- seanmcdirmid 14y agoWeird. I felt the quake in Beijing while we were interviewing someone. Crazy to think that it could be manmade and still felt that far.
- jtl09 14y agoplease believe this absurdity if you are a moron.
- Someone 14y agoMan-made? More like man-triggered: "The Zipingpu reservoir’s apparent triggering of the Wenchuan earthquake is an unprecedented case of reservoir-induced seismicity that presents huge challenges for scientific theory." There is way too little potential energy in that reservoir to cause an earthquake on that scale.