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Published online 7 July 2008 | Nature 454, 148-149 (2008) | doi:10.1038/454148a
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Shock tactics point to risk after quake
Geologists aim to provide daily hazard maps.
An analysis of the seismic stress changes in China’s Sichuan basin has been published just 8 weeks after a magnitude 7.9 earthquake there killed more than 60,000 people and left millions homeless.
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As suffered from this disaster, Thank you all for what you have done. But your prediction has worried us, the afterquake is frequent recently. And I suggest maybe you could publish your hazard map in a more effecient way, and make us know immediately if there will be a earthquake, and we can take some protection.