The News Feature 'The sleeping dragon' (Nature 459, 153–157; 2009) misstated the number of landslides thought to result from the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. It should have said that scientists have identified at least 15,000 resulting landslides and rock avalanches, and perhaps as many as 50,000 or more.
Published online 27 May 2009 | Nature 459, 496 (2009) | doi:10.1038/459496f
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