Dear Tina,In my great sorrow, I’m going to tell you a piece of bad news, which you want to know, that a devastating earthquakehappened in Wenchuan County, about 100 kilometres away from my hometown——Chengdu, the ca...Dear Tina,In my great sorrow, I’m going to tell you a piece of bad news, which you want to know, that a devastating earthquakehappened in Wenchuan County, about 100 kilometres away from my hometown——Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Provinceat twenty-eight past two pm, May 12, 2008.展开更多
Because of the confining compression of the Pacific, Eurasian and Indian plates, the Chinese mainland is frequently stricken with earthquakes, especially in the Qinghai Tibet Plateau and surrounding areas and along th...Because of the confining compression of the Pacific, Eurasian and Indian plates, the Chinese mainland is frequently stricken with earthquakes, especially in the Qinghai Tibet Plateau and surrounding areas and along the NS-trending tectonic zone from Yinchuan to Lanzhou, Chengdu, and finally to the Kunming tectonic belt （Fig. 1）. Historical records show that there are 14 earthquakes of 〉Ms 8 occurring in the two regions, eight of which occurred along the latter tectonic belt. The 2008 Wenchuan earthquake located on both the NS tectonic zone and the Longmenshan fault zone along the eastern margin of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.展开更多
文摘Dear Tina,In my great sorrow, I’m going to tell you a piece of bad news, which you want to know, that a devastating earthquakehappened in Wenchuan County, about 100 kilometres away from my hometown——Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Provinceat twenty-eight past two pm, May 12, 2008.
文摘Because of the confining compression of the Pacific, Eurasian and Indian plates, the Chinese mainland is frequently stricken with earthquakes, especially in the Qinghai Tibet Plateau and surrounding areas and along the NS-trending tectonic zone from Yinchuan to Lanzhou, Chengdu, and finally to the Kunming tectonic belt （Fig. 1）. Historical records show that there are 14 earthquakes of 〉Ms 8 occurring in the two regions, eight of which occurred along the latter tectonic belt. The 2008 Wenchuan earthquake located on both the NS tectonic zone and the Longmenshan fault zone along the eastern margin of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
