According to this news from Telegraph UK, the devastating Sichuan earthquake that killed thousands of people could be triggered by the constructions of dam near the fault line.
This is a dare claim. The Chinese government (of course) denies any correlation between the quake and the constructions of massive projects. However, ..."some state researchers in Beijing have called for a full investigation."The 511ft-high Zipingpu dam holds 315 million tonnes of water and lies just 550 yards from the fault line, and three miles from the epicentre, of the Sichuan earthquake.
Now scientists in China and the United States believe the weight of water, and the effect of it penetrating into the rock, could have affected the pressure on the fault line underneath, possibly unleashing a chain of ruptures that led to the quake.
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