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Science 25 April 1997:
Vol. 276. no. 5312, p. 526
DOI: 10.1126/science.276.5312.526

News & Comment

Earthquake Prediction: Warnings Precede Chinese Temblors

Li Hui and Richard A. Kerr

BEIJING--Seven magnitude-6-plus earthquakes have rocked Jiashi County in far northwestern China in the past 3 months. But seismologists have helped keep the death toll to a minimum by issuing three accurate predictions of imminent quakes.

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Predictions of the 1997 strong earthquakes in Jiashi, Xinjiang, China.
G. Zhang, L. Zhu, X. Song, Z. Li, M. Yang, N. Su, and X. Chen (1999)
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 89, 1171-1183
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