Quake Lake Threat
2008-06-27LILI
Beijing Review 2008年24期
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The authorities are poised to evacuate morethan a million people threatened by deadlypools dammed in by the Sichuan earthquakeao Xiping is the head of a groupof less than 20 water conservationexperts, the only residents above thedam of Tangiiashan quake lake inSichuan Province. Of over 30 quake lakescaused by rivers blocked by landslides inthe aftermath of the earthquake on May12 and thousands of aftershocks, the lakeat Tangjiashan Mountain poses the mostimminent danger of bursting.