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Published online 13 May 2009 | Nature 459, 153-157 (2009) | doi:10.1038/459153a
Corrected online: 27 May 2009

News Feature

Seismology: The sleeping dragon

The great Sichuan earthquake of 12 May 2008 caught Earth scientists off guard. A year on, Alexandra Witze reports from the shattered towns on how researchers have learned from their failures.

Alexandra Witze

Tucked below towering hillsides in Bailu, in China's Sichuan province, two school buildings face one another across a courtyard. Both are several storeys high, white with cheery light-blue trim.

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    Sends instant push notifications to the iPhone based on location, quake magnitude and the distance of the earthquake.

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    • 23 Aug, 2009
    • Posted by: Venky Krishnamani