Two papers in the latest online postings for Geology cover the 12 May 2008 Wenchuan, China, earthquake. One, an open access article, reports the work of the Wenchuan Earthquake Fault Scientific Drilling Project. The second discusses earthquake-triggered landslides and the impact of the Mw 7.9 earthquake on river catchments in the Longmen Shan. This study concludes that the "earthquake memory" of rivers is longest where landsliding is highest and where rainfall is the least intense.
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