The 7.0-magnitude earthquake that hit Sichuan on Saturday occurred on the same Longmenshan fault as the 8.0-magnitude earthquake in 2008. That has deepened geologists' concerns that seismic ...

"After the 2008 magnitude 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake along the Longmenshan fault zone in western Sichuan of China, researchers in China and elsewhere have paid particular attention to this region ...

"After the 2008 magnitude 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake along the Longmenshan fault zone in western Sichuan of China, researchers in China and elsewhere have paid particular attention to this region ...

Some pointed out that the Lushan earthquake, similar to the Wenchuan earthquake, occurred on the Longmenshan fault line and was triggered by movement in the earth's crust. Fan Xiao, chief engineer ...

A number of major earthquakes have taken place along one tectonic boundary in particular – the Longmenshan Fault – which runs through Sichuan’s mountains. That’s where the 2008 Sichuan ...

The team has carried out hydraulic fracturing stress measurements in two boreholes near the town of Dachuan in the Dayi seismic gap of the Longmenshan Fault Zone. They find that high stresses ...

Triggered by the collision of the Eurasian and Indian-Australian tectonic plates along the Longmenshan Fault, the quake had its epicenter in mountains 50 miles outside the Sichuan capital ...

The study highlights accumulating strain in locked segments of the Longmenshan Fault in southwest China, which was the site of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, as well as the Eastern Himalayan ...

Nestled around a deep loop of the Jian river, surrounded by the imposing Longmenshan mountains, it was completely destroyed in the magnitude 8 earthquake of 2008 and the aftershocks, floods and ...