Latest comments posted about The Zipingpu dam: after the quake on ChinaDialogue en-gb http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/2210-The-Zipingpu-dam-after-the-quake http://staging.chinadialogue.net/images/cdlogo.gif http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/2210-The-Zipingpu-dam-after-the-quake What's a pity the public has no access to the article written by Mr Li.This article isn't publically available. More and more evidence proves that China Earthquake Administration and Sichuan Earthquake Administration ignored unusual phenomena that occurred before the earthquake and made a mistaken prognosis about the possibility of an earthquke. Chen Xuezhong believed as early as in 2002 that the possibility of a great earthquake in Sichuan was very large. But because of internal and external struggles in the seismological academy, in the end the right voices were not be adopted. These facts were less likely to have been public knowledge before the earthquke. Translated by Chen Liying (Anna) Tue, 12 May 2009 18:04:04 +0000 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/2210#comment-8852 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/2210#comment-8852 Does anybody know if Li Youcai or any other technician or scientist for that matter, voiced warnings in public before the quake happened? Thanks! Sun, 08 Feb 2009 07:53:15 +0000 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/2210#comment-8296 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/2210#comment-8296 "According to Zhang, it is not only possible to build reservoirs in earthquake-prone areas, but this also helps to reduce the strength of quakes. Reservoirs might cause the quakes to become more frequent, but they will dampen them like a quilt over the ground, he argues." Despite his being a so-called expert, Zhang Boting's theory is actually absurd. It has been argued against here: http://tinyurl.com/6299wo ( This comment was translated by Zheng Shen) Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:56:32 +0000 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/2210#comment-7671 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/2210#comment-7671