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Deixi landslides caused by the 1933 Deixi earthquake, Sichuan, China.

  • Photograph of view upstream along the Min River, Sichuan Province, China, at the remains of the 1933-earthquake-triggered Yinping landslid dam, which impounded Da Lake (middle background).  Xiao Lake (foreground) was impounded by another landslide dam caused by the same earthquake. Please see:  http://bulletin.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/reprint/100/7/1054.pdf
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