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Beichuan, China after Wenchuan earthquake. Credit: Siobhan Whadcoat
A new multidisciplinary research project, ‘Earthquakes without frontiers’, includes researchers from IHRR at Durham University, Cambridge, Oxford, Hull and several other universities and institutes who will study a neglected area of earthquake research on the Alpine-Himalayan belt that stretches through Italy, Greece and Turkey, across the Middle East, Iran and central Asia, to China. It is known as one of the most earthquake-prone regions in the world. The project includes collaborators from China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, India, Italy, Greece, Turkey and Iran. Read more
