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SEISMOLOGY: A Human Trigger for the Great Quake of Sichuan?
Richard A. Kerr and Richard Stone
The first researchers have gone public with evidence that stresses from water piled behind the new Zipingpu Dam may have triggered last May's devastating earthquake in China's Sichuan Province.